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noun | verb shackshack1 /ʃæk/ ●○○ noun [countable] ETYMOLOGYshack1Origin: 1800-1900 Perhaps from shackly likely to fall down (19-20 centuries), or from Mexican Spanish jacal small building, from Nahuatl xacalli THESAURUSwhere you live► housea)a building that you live in and is intended to be used by one family: My parents just bought a five-bedroom house.b)all the people who live in a house: Be quiet or you’ll wake the whole house! ► apartment a set of rooms, usually to rent, that is part of a bigger building: How much does it cost to rent a three-bedroom apartment? ► condominium/condo one apartment in a building with several apartments, each of which is owned by the people living in it: We bought a condo on Cape Cod, and we spend most of the summer there. ► duplex a house that is divided into two separate homes: They own the duplex they live in and rent out the other half. ► townhouse a house in a group of houses that share one or more walls: The development has really nice townhouses in clusters of three or four. ► mansion a very large expensive house: She lives in a huge mansion in Beverly Hills. ► mobile/manufactured home (also trailer) a type of house that can be pulled by a large vehicle and moved to another place: After we got married we lived in a mobile home until we could afford a house. ► cottage a small house outside a city, especially one used for vacations: They spend their summers at their cottage on the lake. ► cabin a small house made of wood, usually in a forest or the mountains: The early settlers built log cabins in the woods. ► hut a small simple house or building with only one or two rooms, especially in poorer parts of the world: Each family in the tribe has its own hut. ► shack a small house that has not been built very well: The poorest people live in shacks made of pieces of wood, sheets of metal, and cardboard. a small building made of cheap materials: They lived in a one-room shack.► see thesaurus at house1 noun | verb shackshack2 ●○○ verb VERB TABLEshack |
Present | I, you, we, they | shack | | he, she, it | shacks | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | shacked | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have shacked | | he, she, it | has shacked | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had shacked | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will shack | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have shacked |
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Present | I | am shacking | | he, she, it | is shacking | | you, we, they | are shacking | Past | I, he, she, it | was shacking | | you, we, they | were shacking | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been shacking | | he, she, it | has been shacking | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been shacking | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be shacking | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been shacking |
shack up phrasal verb informal to live with someone who you have sex with but are not married to: shack up with He shacked up with some woman in Newark. |