Shack Definition

shăk
shacked, shacking, shacks
noun
shacks
A small house or cabin that is crudely built and furnished; shanty.
Webster's New World
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.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
To live or dwell.
Farm hands shacking in bunkhouses.
American Heritage

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

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
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.

American Heritage
shack up
  • to live or room (in a certain place)
  • to live (with one's lover)
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Shack

Noun

Singular:
shack
Plural:
shacks

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Shack

Origin of Shack

  • 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

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Shack Sentence Examples

  • He didn't shack up at the Whitney Motel.

  • There's an awesome taco shack an hour away.

  • He used to beat the shit out of his shack full of kids just to keep in shape.

  • Probably some run down shack without electricity or running water - and how much of the 40 acres was vertical?

  • He was well-dressed and perfectly presented, not the kind to dine at what she envisioned a taco shack to be.

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