noun
- plural of shack; small, roughly built houses or cabins
verb
- third person singular present of shack; to live together without being married
Usage: informal
Examples
- The fishing village consisted of weathered shacks along the shore.
- Hurricane winds destroyed several shacks in the settlement.
- Workers lived in temporary shacks near the construction site.
- The old mining town had rows of abandoned shacks.
- She shacks up with her boyfriend in a small apartment.
- He shacks with his girlfriend instead of getting married.