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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.

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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. Letter: Mail Box - JOKER JINKY WAS CELTS' TOP BHOY by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) 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. Soap stories: Family at war over the kids; EASTENDERS MONDAY, BBC1, ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) 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. Dear MIRIAM: Love rat slinks in by The Mirror (London, England)			settle settle a score settle a score with settle affairs settle down settle down to settle for settle hash settle in settle into settle old scores settle on settle stomach settle up with seven seven-year itch seventh sever ties with several several irons in the fire sew sew up sewed up sex sez shack up shackle with shade shades of shadow shadow of oneself shady shady character shady deal shaft shag shagged out shaggy shaggy-dog Story shake shake a disease or illness off shake a leg Shake a leg! shake down shake hand shake hands shake head shake in boots shake it shake like a leaf shake off			Shabtai tsvi Shabtai Tzvi Shabtai Zevi Shabtai Zvi Shabtay tsvi Shabti shabu Shabu shabu shabu-shabu Shabulin, Mikhail Shabulin, Mikhail Nikolaevich Shabuot Shabuot Shabuoth Shabuoth Shabushabu SHAC Shacharis Shache Shache shack shack shack Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia Shack Hartmann Wavefront Sensing Shack on a Rock shack up Shack/Slum Dwellers International Shackatory shacked shacked Shackelford County Shackelford County, Texas Shackelford County, TX Shackford Head State Park shacking shacking shackle shackle shackle shackle shackle Shackle bar Shackle bolt Shackle bolt Shackle joint shackle with shackled shackled shackled shackled shackler shackler shackler shackler shackles shackles

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