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shack Definition

shack (s̸hak)

noun

a small house or cabin that is crudely built and furnished; shanty

Etymology: < ? AmSp jacal < Nahuatl xacalli, wooden hut

shack Idioms

shack up

  1. Slang to live or room (in a certain place)
  2. to live (with one's mistress or paramour)
shack Synonyms

shack

n.

hut, shed, hovel, cabin, shanty, shotgun shack.

shack Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • corrugate: All the family members were living together in a corrugated iron shack with a sandy floor.
  • build: The lake still under construction 02/02/01 Just the place to build a bamboo shack.
  • abandon: Not bad from the director who began making his first feature in an abandoned shack.
  • get: He's got this little shack in the garden where all the local bands rehearse.
  • make: I stopped off at a shack made of reeds for a haircut: quickly clipped with unexpected skill.
  • ensure: Also, some way of ensuring the food shacks are adhering to suitable hygeine standards would be nice.

Adjective modifier

  • wooden: Mr Crowther recently spent three days living in a wooden shack in the market square at Garstang to raise money for Oxfam.
  • tiny: The men would be jammed together at arm's length in a tiny shack buried in the snow.
  • little: Only days earlier his mother had died in her sleep in the little shack.
  • small: Half way down the block, I saw the small shack looking house where my in-laws had once lived.
  • old: Just a dirty old shack, Where the hound dogs bark, That we called our home.
  • few: Periche is a ' one horse ' town, little more than a few shacks on a wind swept plain between 5000 meter mountains.

Preposition: on

  • beach: There was a surf board hire shack on the beach and Dad decided he wanted to try out this new sport.
  • outskirt: Imagine yourself in a mud hut, or maybe a tin shack on the outskirts of some sprawling city.

Noun used with modifier

  • tin: Between the long grasses there are small plots of land dotted with tin shacks roofed with dried palm branches.
  • hunting: A higher interest and hunting shacks can find a job.
  • radio: We just use the jackets going out of the radio shack.
  • beach: The resident population of Dungeness live in a range of brick built houses and beach shacks or chalets.
  • iron: All the family members were living together in a corrugated iron shack with a sandy floor.
  • love: The house next door will soon be a love shack.

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