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shack
1[ shak ]
verb phrase
- Slang.
- to live together as spouses without being legally married.
- to have illicit sexual relations.
- to live in a shack:
He's shacked up in the mountains.
shack
2[ shak ]
verb (used with object)
- to chase and throw back; to retrieve:
to shack a ground ball.
shack
1/ ʃæ /
noun
- a roughly built hut
- temporary accommodation put together by squatters
verb
- See shack up
shack
2/ ʃæ /
verb
- dialect.to evade (work or responsibility)
Word History and Origins
Origin of shack1
Word History and Origins
Origin of shack1
Example Sentences
Han knows he must exaggerate Min’s daffy naivete to get us to buy into his zeal to live in a small shack with noncommittal Chris.
In the snack shack, moms and dads work.
At the end of the short trail, the fuel offered inside Saar’s compact service station, a shiny tin shack sheltered among trees, is spiritual nourishment.
The setting allows White to indulge in commentary about misguiding Western hierarchal assumptions, primarily turning up in the form of old bald white men shacking up with young women from Thailand or elsewhere.
In the meantime, the gobies are shacking up at Santa Monica’s Heal the Bay Aquarium and the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.
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