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Sentence examples for shack up from inspiring English sources

"shack up" is a correct and common term in written English.
It is used to refer to living together with someone without officially being married. For example, "My cousin and her boyfriend decided to shack up together."

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shack up

verb

To live together, especially of an unmarried couple.

  • I don't think his father was too thrilled when he shacked up with his girlfriend.

synonyms

cohabit
live together

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Men and women shack up for a while, produce children and then float off to shack up with someone else.

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My aesthetics of crime were self-creation and I went back to shack up with Stilitano.

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The Guardian - Books

I had just moved from Brooklyn to downtown Manhattan to shack up with a boyfriend.

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The New York Times

Fiction I dragged halfway around the world to shack up with in my beach hut?

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The Guardian - Books

Just ditch the firm, head off to Maui, shack up with the supermodel.

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The New York Times

She wondered if Jamie had also managed to shack up with Nugent.

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The New Yorker

He ran away from Mom to shack up with your mother.

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The New York Times - Books

The guys shack up at an oceanfront motel appointed in midcentury nautical style.

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The New York Times - Arts

The decision to shack up with Sky Sports is often treated a little hysterically.

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At the Shack-Up Inn, just out Clarksdale, genuine shotgun shacks have been refurbished.

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The New York Times - Travel

The museum is open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. SHACK-UP INN One CoMisssary Circle Clarksdale, Miss.

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