British and Australian slang: to live as a bachelor; to manage one's own household without a partner, especially temporarily.
From bache (bachelor) plus the regular past tense suffix -ed; a verb form created from the noun slang term.
Turning nouns into verbs is how English grows—you can 'email,' 'google,' or 'bache,' showing that our language constantly invents new words by repurposing old ones.
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