shack up
verb
shacked up; shacking up; shacks up
: to sleep or live together as unmarried sexual partners
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Avery’s best friend, Frances, has decamped to North Carolina to shack up with a plain, natural ram’s-horn sort of man.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for shack up
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“Shack up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shack%20up. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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