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shack
(shăk)n.
A small, crudely built building; a shanty.
intr.v. shacked, shack·ing, shacks
Idiom: To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses.
shack up Slang
1. To live together and have sexual relations without being married.
2. To live, room, or stay at a place: I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own.
[Probably back-formation from dialectal (chiefly southern United States) shackly, rickety, perhaps from English dialectal shackle, to litter, disorder, frequentative of shake.]
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shack
(ʃæk)n
1. (Architecture) a roughly built hut
2. (Architecture) South African temporary accommodation put together by squatters
vb
See shack up
[C19: perhaps from dialect shackly ramshackle, from dialect shack to shake]
shack
(ʃæk)vb
dialect Midland English to evade (work or responsibility)
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shack
(ʃæk)n.
1. a rough cabin; shanty.
v.i. 2. shack up, Slang.
a. to live together as sexual partners without being legally married.
b. to take up residence; dwell.
[1875–80, Amer.; compare earlier shackly rickety, probably akin to ramshackle]
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Past participle: shacked
Gerund: shacking
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| Noun | 1. |  shack - small crude shelter used as a dwellingmudhif - a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained shelter - a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger |
| Verb | 1. | shack - make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" rusticate - live in the country and lead a rustic life |
| 2. | shack - move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly; "John trailed behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart" go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
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shack
noun hut, cabin, shanty, lean-to, dump (informal), hovel, shiel (Scot.), shieling (Scot.) a nice shack in shanty town
shack up with someone move in with, go to live with, share a house with, live together with It turned out she had shacked up with a lawyer in New York.
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Translations
كوخ، خُص
chatrčžít na hromádce
bo sammenskur
domaĉo
latovaja
hreysikofaskrifli, skúrkofiskúr
gyventi susidėjusgyventi susimetus
būdadzivot kopa
búda
bajta
shack
[ʃæk] N → choza f, jacal m (CAm, Mex)shack up VI + ADV to shack up with sb → arrejuntarse con algn
to shack up together → arrejuntarse, vivir arrejuntados
to shack up together → arrejuntarse, vivir arrejuntados
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shack
(ʃӕk) noun a roughly-built hut. a wooden shack.
verbshack up to live together (with someone) as sexual partners without being married.
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