shack
IPA: ʃˈæk
noun
- A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
- (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
- (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
- (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
- (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- (fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
- (Nigeria, slang) A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
- A surname.
verb
- To live (in or with); to shack up.
- (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
- (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
- (UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
- (US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
- (Nigeria, slang) To drink, especially alcohol.
adjective
- (Singapore, slang) Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.
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Examples of "shack" in Sentences
- The family lived in a small shack.
- It's basically a shack by the tracks.
- Shacks and dugouts dotted the canyon.
- A shack that opens for lunch and dinner.
- There's a time for a boudoir and a time for a shack.
- She continues to live in a makeshift shack in the slums.
- She's the ostensible bad girl who works in a clam shack.
- There are townships that are mostly shacks, but that's not Soweto.
- However the City ignored the interdict and continued to demolish shacks.
- The Seafood Shack is an unprepossessing kind of place, tucked away at the rear of the casino.