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