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.

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