shack up

verb

shacked up; shacking up; shacks up

intransitive verb

: to sleep or live together as unmarried sexual partners

Examples of shack up in a Sentence

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As everybody knows, the pair took the Mac to megastar level with classic songs about breaking up, making up, packing up, shacking up, and wreaking endless misery upon each other, along with the rest of us. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2025 Johnson, who has now shacked up with a Native American woman and her child, is getting acclimated to frontier living. Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025 He’s been living in the team hotel since the spring and is unclear how long he’s allowed to shack up there. Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 28 Aug. 2025 But the biggest bomb to drop is that Peter is divorcing Michaela and shacking up with Simone, leaving Michaela out to dry and showing Peter's true colors. Megan McCluskey, Time, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for shack up

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shack up was in 1935

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“Shack up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shack%20up. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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