Shack meaning

shăk

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A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty.

noun

To live or dwell.

Farm hands shacking in bunkhouses.

verb

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

noun

A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

noun

Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.

noun

To live in or with; to shack up.

verb

1996, J M Neeson, Commoners.

The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.

noun

(UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.

verb

The definition of a shack is a small house with crude construction.

An example of a shack is a broken down cabin.

noun

shack up

To live together and have sexual relations without being married.
To live, room, or stay at a place:.

I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own.

idiom

shack up

idiom

Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Probably back-formation from dialectal (chiefly southern United States) shackly rickety perhaps from English dialectal shackle to litter, disorder frequentative of shake

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Some authorities derive this word from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut"), but other authorities consider this phonologically impossible and relate the word instead to ramshackle.

From Wiktionary
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats").

From Wiktionary