Shack

Quick meaning: Shack is a noun meaning A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

Meaning

A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

More Meanings

1. Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
2. To live (in or with); to shack up.
3. (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
4. (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
5. (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
6. (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
7. (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.

Example Sentences

All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.

They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.

Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.

The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.

Word Forms

• shacks
• shacking
• shacked

Synonyms for shack

Depending on context, synonyms include hovel, shanty, camp, trudge, dwell, live.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shanty, hut, hutch, hovel, inhabit, populate.

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