shacking up
Sharing a home
Shacking up is living with a romantic partner without being married.
The phrase carries a slightly disapproving or old-fashioned tone, suggesting the arrangement is improper or temporary: Her parents weren't thrilled that she was shacking up with her boyfriend.
The related noun is shack-up.
- unmarriedNot legally wed
- living in sinUnmarried romantic cohabitation
- live-inResiding at work
- cohabitationDwelling together unmarried
- nestingMaking a dwelling
domesticity · conjugal · roommates · nonmarital · partnership · taboo · common-law · stigma · unconventionality · commitment · mating · romance · togetherness · live together · playing house · trial marriage · test run · companionship
- cohabitationcohabitation, cohabiting, cohabitants, cohabiting couple, living together
- marriagebride, groom, wedding, husband, wife
- householdshousehold, nuclear family, residents, married couple, occupants
- innuendoinnuendo, sexual innuendo, double entendre, double meaning, implied meaning
shacking upliving apart
Occupying separate residences
separate · apart · living alone · long-distance · long-distance relationship
shacking upmarried
Joined in matrimony
wedded · tying the knot · getting hitched · matrimony · wedlock
shacking upsingle
One in number
unattached · unpartnered · on one's own · flying solo · living alone