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
- And they had what they called shack rousters then.
- Scene: Rib joint, one step up from a tin shack on the side of the road.
- In sim, we pretend that the shack is a bubble and the path is a pressurized tunnel.
- Mack's weekend at the shack is a compressed journey toward belief, forgiveness and acceptance.
- This shack is still the object of occasional pilgrimages by 21st-century science fiction writers.
- You never know, maybe if we can ever get Deeter outside of the mountain shack we may venture south as a group.
- The story of Leslie, the woman who was forced to leave her nice home and live in a shack, is also very inspiring.
- Instead of a dump, this shack is a mansion in an Eden-like garden where God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit embrace him.
- 'O master,' he said, 'we have laid by great wealth in molasses and sugar and flour, but our shack is yet mean, our clothes thin, and our sleeping furs mangy.
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