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shacking up

shacking up is the present participle and gerund of shack up.

Meaning of shack up

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

Questions about shacking up

What is shacking up the present participle and gerund of?
Shacking up is the present participle and gerund of shack up.

Words near shacking up in the dictionary

  1. Shackelfords
  2. Shackerstone
  3. shacket
  4. shackets
  5. shacking
  6. shacking up
  7. shackjob
  8. shackjobs
  9. shackland
  10. shacklands
  11. shackle

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