释义 |
shack verb- to live together as an unmarried couple US, 1935
Very often used in the variant “shack up”. - Who you been shacking with? — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 40, 1952
- Next rite is shacking up with a chick. — Jim Schock, Life is a Lousy Drag, 1958
- But the houses had been split up into bed-sized one-room kitchenettes, renting for $25 weekly, at the disposal of frantic couples who wished to shack up for a season. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 61, 1959
- But if I should find out that you and Ira are still shacking up–well, I don’t know exactly what I’d do. Nothing out of a Noel Coward comedy, I promise you. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 179, 1964
- — The Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms, p. 41, 1965
- [W]e have two single couples, they are shacking together at the present time. — Thomas Wilson, Wife Swapping, p. 171, 1965
- She don’t go for shackin’ up with everybody. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 164, 1967
- I was 22 years of age and shacking with a chick named Julie, I gave her one “joint” which she stashed and later turned over to the cops–a joint that netted me one of the 5-to-life sentences. — The Berkeley Tribe, p. 5, 5–12 September 1969
- At that time he used stuff for a period of about eighteen months until he ran into some difficulty with a girl he was shacking up with[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 80, 1980
- Yeah, well the only woman of the Indian’s we ran into was shacked up with her dyke girlfriend. — 48 Hours, 1982
- Yeah, Alyssa, who’ve you been shacking up with? — Chasing Amy, 1997
- Now you’re shacking up with your therapist! — 200 Cigarettes, 1999
- His plan was to shack up with some fat girlfriend of his[.] — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says ..., p. 160, 2000
- to spend the night with someone, sex almost always included US
Not the ongoing relationship suggested by the older term SHACK UP- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 5, Fall 1996
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