Shack


noun
1.
a rough cabin; shanty.
2.
Informal. radio shack.
Verb phrases
3.
shack up, 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.

verb (used with object), Informal.
1.
to chase and throw back; to retrieve:
to shack a ground ball.
noun
1.
a roughly built hut
2.
(South African) temporary accommodation put together by squatters
verb
3.
See shack up
verb
1.
(Midland English, dialect) to evade (work or responsibility)
shack

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