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shack up

shack up verb: to live together, especially of an unmarried couple.

Verb

shack up (third-person singular simple present shacks up, present participle shacking up, simple past and past participle shacked up)

  1. (colloquial) To live together, especially of an unmarried couple.
    • The only thing I want to do after the war is marry some girl who's got more money than I have and shack up with lots more pretty girls.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 173
    • So I don't believe in alimony, okay, love? / Though I think we'd ought to / Shack up baby, shack up1980, “Shack Up”, performed by A Certain Ratio

shack up meaning in Tamil

shack up in Tamil

தகாத பாலியல் உறவு வைத்தல்

Forms of shack up

third-person singular presentshacks up
present participleshacking up
past participleshacked up
pastshacked up

Questions about shack up

What does shack up mean?
Shack up means to live together, especially of an unmarried couple.
What is shack up in Tamil?
Shack up in Tamil is தகாத பாலியல் உறவு வைத்தல். See Shack up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shack up?
Shack up is a verb.
What is the past tense of shack up?
The past tense of shack up is shacked up.

Words near shack up in the dictionary

  1. Shachtmanite
  2. Shachtmanites
  3. shack
  4. shack rat
  5. shack rats
  6. shack up
  7. shack-shack
  8. shack-shacks
  9. Shackamaxon
  10. shackbolt
  11. shackbolts

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