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View synonyms for shack up

shack up

verb

  1. slang.
    intr, adverbusually foll bywith to live or take up residence, esp with a mistress or lover
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Ten contestants are shacked up in an Italian villa and, as the title suggests, they're introduced with a kiss.

From BBC

Distraught and at a loss, Yamazaki shacked up at City Lights’ Grant Avenue office for a few months, his sleeping bag on the floor.

In the summer of 1921, long before garages became the settings of folkloric Silicon Valley origin stories, Picasso shacked up in one in Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris, to take on his own creative pursuits.

This takes a bizarrely conventional turn in his courtship of Elsa, whom he doesn’t merely shack up with but marries.

But I’m so angry he’s turned into such a walking midlife crisis who left his family to shack up with a morally questionable woman for what I’m sure is sex.

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