单词 | to be shacked |
释义 | > as lemmasto be shacked (up) b. transitive. Usually with up. To provide with accommodation or lodging, esp. as a sexual partner. Chiefly in passive to be shacked (up), to be staying or lodging, to be cohabiting (with). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation innOE harbourc1150 gestena1300 guestc1330 hostelc1330 receivec1384 sojourn1390 harbry14.. shroudc1450 bestow1577 accommodate1592 board1600 quarter1603 stow1607 to put up1635 billet1637 lodge1741 room1840 to fix (a person) up1889 summer-board1889 shack1927 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (transitive)] > cohabit with > provide sexual partner with accommodation shack1927 to case up1936 1927 Dial. Notes 5 462 Shack up, v., to put up for the night. 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’. 1953 P. Frankau Winged Horse iv. 242 He's shacked up with Celia. 1957 Economist 30 Nov. 787/1 Private Girard's marriage to the Japanese girl with whom he had been ‘shacked up’. 1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff (1960) ii. 19 ‘Where is this Newton?’ ‘He's shacked in a hotel..downtown.’ 1967 J. Porter Chinks in Curtain ix. 89 I haven't seen hide or hair of him. He's probably still shacked up with les girls. 1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 29 Sept. 1/2 Even the mayor was shacked up and everybody knew. 1975 D. Lodge Changing Places iii. 125 Philip Swallow is shacked up with Melanie at that address. < as lemmas |
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