shack-jobn.
/ˈʃakdʒɒb/ U.S. slang.
= shack-up n. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun]
sleeping partner?1456
screw1725
sexual partner1847
shack-job1946
shack-up1969
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > one who co-inhabits > outside marriage
domestic partner1815
bide-in1916
bidie-in1916
cohabiter1942
shack-job1946
cohabitee1955
shack-up1969
live-in1977
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > cohabitation > one who
star boarder1875
tallyman1876
tallywoman1890
bide-in1916
bidie-in1916
cohabiter1942
shack-job1946
cohabitee1955
shack-up1969
live-in1977
1946 Amer. Speech 21 252 ‘I'm shacked up around here’ means that the speaker has found a friendly fräulein who in substance maintains a home for him. The fräulein herself is a ‘shack job’.
1951 New Yorker 10 Mar. 112/2 Allowing him to sleep with their daughter (this was an early shack-job, not the girl mentioned above).
1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions i. iv. 158 Look, rabbit, I'm looking for a shack-job, see?
1966 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 73/3 Shack job, easy-woman.
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