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shack
1[ shak ]
verb phrase
- Slang.
- to live together as spouses without being legally married.
- to have illicit sexual relations.
- to live in a shack:
He's shacked up in the mountains.
shack
2[ shak ]
verb (used with object)
- to chase and throw back; to retrieve:
to shack a ground ball.
shack
1/ ʃæk /
noun
- a roughly built hut
- temporary accommodation put together by squatters
verb
- See shack up
shack
2/ ʃæk /
verb
- dialect.to evade (work or responsibility)
Word History and Origins
Origin of shack1
Word History and Origins
Origin of shack1
Example Sentences
So, the Southside Smokehouse is more than a barbecue pit, a burger shack, or a Cajun kitchen.
Childress even kept his dead father Billy bound up and rotting in a nearby shack, Psycho-style.
Caddy Shack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Analyze This affirm it.
For many, many good reasons, school is not an ideal time to shack up with your soul mate.
It was just Mike Royko and his pal, Big Shack, and whatever their bleary musings happened to be that night three years ago.
Even the Chinese shrimp-pickers were lounging on the beach before their little shack village.
Bergin dug a big hole behind that ole vacant shack of hisn, and buried about a ton of tin cans.
After breakfast fixed up shack—shelves, benches, tools, etc.
All clear, Tom called, and there was a sudden rush of wet figures for the poor sanctuary of the tumbledown shack.
But Monte come to the shack and watched Cash through a knothole the size of one eye till Cash opened up his heart and the bag.
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