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shack up

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shack up (with someone)
Inf. to sleep or live with someone temporarily in a sexual relationship. They shacked up for over a year until her parents found out and stopped sending her money.
See also: up

shack up (with somebody) (slang)
to live with and have a sexual relationship with someone you are not married to I was surprised to hear you're shacking up with Kathy.
Related vocabulary: set up housekeeping
See also: up


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When a man walks out on his wife and children to shack up with a sex therapist, starts painting his toenails and accuses his late father of sexual abuse, he has a troubled soul.
The estranged husband and wife are in a blazing row when a confused Lauren returns home from her school trip to find that her dad's come back, her mum is planning to shack up with Uncle Jack and everyone is at each other's throats.
Byline: Dr MIRIAM STOPPARD Dear Miriam MY husband of 20 years left me to shack up with his brother's wife, only for her to change her mind and go back to her man.
 
 
 
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