shanty
IPA: ʃˈænti
noun
- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
- A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work.
verb
- To inhabit a shanty.
adjective
- (US, derogatory) Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
- Jaunty; showy.
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Examples of "shanty" in Sentences
- The shanty dwellers were the most serious problem.
- Shanty region is in the northwest corner of the county.
- He owns the chair in the shanty at the end of the cornfield.
- South of the garden, there was a neighborhood of shanty homes.
- The resulting small explosion could have set off the entire shanty.
- The incredulous scientist goes to the shanty town to obtain the mice.
- It is a shanty town and one of the poorest locations in the entire country.
- A small shanty town inhabited by the homeless occupies a portion of the park.
- It sprung up as a shanty town during the construction of the Pennsylvania Canal.