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shack

1  [shak]
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–noun
1. a rough cabin; shanty.
2. Informal. radio shack.
—Verb phrase
3. shack up, Slang.
a. to live together as husband and wife without being legally married.
b. to have illicit sexual relations.
c. to live in a shack: He's shacked up in the mountains.
Origin:
1875–80, Americanism; cf. earlier shackly rickety, prob. akin to ramshackle (MexSp jacal “hut” is a phonetically impossible source)
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2  [shak]
–verb (used with object) Informal.
to chase and throw back; to retrieve: to shack a ground ball.
Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; appar. special use of dial. shack to shake
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shack   (shāk)   
n.  A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty.
intr.v.   shacked, shack·ing, shacks
To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses.

[Possibly from American Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli, adobe hut : xámitl, adobe + calli, house, hut.]
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Word Origin & History

shack 
1878, Amer.Eng. and Canadian Eng., of unknown origin, perhaps from Mex.Sp. jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli "wooden hut." Or perhaps a back-formation from dial. Eng. shackly "shaky, rickety" (1843), a derivative of shack, a dial. variant of shake (q.v.). Another theory derives shack from ramshackle. Slang verb phrase shack up "cohabit" first recorded 1935 (in Zora Neale Hurston).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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