shack
noun
[ ʃak ]
• a roughly built hut or cabin.
Similar:
hut,
shanty,
cabin,
log cabin,
lean-to,
shed,
hovel,
bothy,
shieling,
shiel,
tilt,
hok,
gunyah,
mia-mia,
humpy,
whare,
hogan,
wickiup,
favela,
shebang,
shack
verb
• move in or live with someone as a lover.
• "they won't believe I've shacked up with someone so good-looking"
Similar:
cohabit,
live with,
live together,
share a house,
live in sin,
live over the brush,
Origin:
late 19th century: perhaps from Mexican jacal, Nahuatl xacatli ‘wooden hut’. The early sense of the verb was ‘live in a shack’ (originally a US usage).
