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shacks up

shacks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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What is shacks up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shacks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shack up.

Words near shacks up in the dictionary

  1. shackly
  2. shacko
  3. shackoes
  4. shackos
  5. shacks
  6. shacks up
  7. shacktown
  8. shacktowns
  9. shacky
  10. shad
  11. shad cab

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