Meaning

1 senses

  1. (colloquial)To live together, especially of an unmarried couple.

    in wilder Ehe leben, (mit jemandem) zusammenziehen

    сожи́тельствоватьsožítelʹstvovatʹ

    share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple

Examples

3 sentences

  1. The last thing she should do is shack up with him.

    deMit ihm zusammenziehen sollte sie auf gar keinen Fall. — Waldelfe

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  2. He left his wife and shacked up with a woman half her age.

    ruОн оставил жену и стал жить с женщиной в два раза моложе её. — Mira

    deEr hat seine Frau verlassen und ist mit einer halb so alten Frau zusammengezogen. — Sudajaengi

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  3. The butcher John shacked up with the cashier Bess.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
to live together, especially when unmarried:
Deutsch
to live together, especially when unmarried:

Forms

shacks up, shacking up, shacked up, shacked up
Base formshack up · to shack up
3rd person singularshacks up
Present participleshacking up
Past simpleshacked up
Past participleshacked up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyshack up
he, she, itshacks up

Past simpleLesson

all personsshacked up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave shacked up
he, she, ithas shacked up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill shack up

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple:cohabitlive together

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcohabitelope

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
shabbyB2shackshackleshadeA2
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