Crossword clues for shack
shack
- Humble dwelling
- Dilapidated dwelling
- Castaway's dwelling
- Crude cabin
- Rough hut
- Run-down building
- Run-down dwelling
- Rough house?
- Rough dwelling
- Small, poorly made house
- Seedy-looking structure
- Rude digs
- Radioman's room
- Ice fishing _____
- Fixer-upper, to say the least
- Digs less than satisfactory
- Certain seedy place
- Castaway's residence
- Building in many restaurant names
- 1989 B-52's hit song Love ____
- "Love ___" (1989 hit for the B-52s)
- Hobo's home
- Poor pad
- Rough cabin
- Hooverville home
- Radio ___ (store chain that sells electronics)
- Humble abode
- Roughhouse?
- Take to living together, with "up"
- Small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- Hut
- Tumbledown dwelling
- House fire consuming husband
- Roughly built hut
- Rough hut or cabin
- Henry in bed in hut
- Crude shelter
- Simple shelter
- Humble home
- Crude home
- Crude dwelling place
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats.]
The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]
Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.]
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A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
--Forby.All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
--H. W. Beecher.These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect.
--D. C. Worcester.Common of shack (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest.
--Cowell.
Shack \Shack\, v. t. [Prov. E., to shake, to shed. See Shake.]
To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. [Prov. Eng.]
--Grose.To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.]
To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.]
Shack \Shack\, n. [Cf. Shack, v. i.] a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1878, American English and Canadian English, of unknown origin, perhaps from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) xacalli "wooden hut." Or perhaps a back-formation from dialectal English shackly "shaky, rickety" (1843), a derivative of shack, a dialectal variant of shake (v.). Another theory derives shack from ramshackle.\n
\nSlang meaning "house" attested by 1910. In early radio enthusiast slang, it was the word for a room or office set aside for wireless use, 1919, perhaps from earlier U.S. Navy use (1917). As a verb, 1891 in the U.S. West in reference to men who "hole up" for the winter; from 1927 as "to put up for the night;" phrase shack up "cohabit" first recorded 1935 (in Zora Neale Hurston).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin. vb. To live in or with; to shack up. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context obsolete English) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest. 2 (context obsolete English) Nuts which have fallen to the ground. 3 (context obsolete English) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon '''shack'''. 4 (context UK US dialect obsolete English) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. 2 (context obsolete English) To feed in stubble, or upon waste. 3 (context UK dialect English) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
WordNet
v. make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated" [syn: dwell, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate]
move, proceed, or walk draggingly pr slowly; "John trailed behind behis class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart" [syn: trail]
Wikipedia
A shack is a type of small, often primitive shelter or dwelling.
It is possible that up to a billion people worldwide live in shacks. Fire is a significant hazard in tight-knit shack settlements. Shack settlements are also sometimes known as slums or shanty towns.
In Australian English shack can also refer to a small holiday house with limited conveniences, for instance it may not have running water or electricity.
In oilfield drilling (Canada) a shack can also be the word for a wellsite trailer. Structures that were once notorious among oilfield workers for being cramped, uncomfortable and generally unpleasant to be in are now no longer good enough for companies that are serious about employee retention.
02.jpg|Shacks in Kayamandi, South Africa Shack.jpg|In relatively affluent areas, shacks are often used for storage or have been abandoned.
A Shack is a type of small house, usually in a state of disrepair.
Shack or The Shack may also refer to:
- The Shack (1898 novel), a Spanish novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
- The Shack (1945 film), a Mexican film adaptation
- Shack (band), English alternative rock group formed 1987
- Radio Shack, American retail electronics franchise
- Shacknews, website about games, also known as "The Shack"
- The Shack, a 2007 novel by William P. Young
- The Shack (journalism), the police beat for journalists within the NYPD headquarters
Usage examples of "shack".
CIC, ready rooms, wardrooms, chiefs quarters, berth- ing spaces, in aerology, the radio shack, on the hangar deck, all through the ship the men waited.
There, they ate lunch at a seafood shack on Almar Avenue, with outdoor tables, and went for a long walk along West Cliff Drive and out onto the ocean view point before heading back into San Francisco.
Listeners could picture the years wherein Chardon and Dokey had worked underground from the old shack to tap the real vein of the Aureole Mine.
CHAPTER XVI DEATH REVERSED ITCH FENDEL was seated in the inner room of the hillside shack reading the note that Marcus Beld had sent him.
She wrote little about herself, but went into raptures about the great city, about its reviving ruins, about the women, girls and youths who had come here from all parts of the country to rebuild the city, living in cellars, gun emplacements, blindages and bunkers left after the fighting, and in railway cars, plywood shacks and dug-outs.
She jumped down from the buckboard and ran into the shack, moving with surprising agility for a woman so tall.
He could have gone to live in those old Campana shacks at the east end if he wanted to.
The ceilidh was being held in a barnlike shack falling to rack and ruin down in the midst of the mangrove swamps festering about the mouth of the Dungloe River.
I found a message that Sherry had gone to visit Missus Chubby when I arrived back at the shack, so I went out on to the veranda with a cold beer.
Burr sat hunched over the table in the cook shack, his stomach empty and grumbling, his hands circling the mug of hot coffee while he waited for Codger to cook the refried beans and eggs.
I happen to have a colander of my own, which came with the shack and has been lying fallow all this time.
President of the United States is a loony and that instead of simply being shacked up someplace with a cooch dancer the Secretary of Mental Health is back in Vienna in the late 19th Century.
Jules had taken Miguel, Sancho and Culler with him to check on the line shacks and watering holes.
Tech Area: physicists from the cyclotron shack, soldiers from the boiler house, doctors from the medical labs, office clerks and, in front, the Indians who swept every building.
Don Gately as they pass on the crowded street, Don Gately, like pretty much all heterosexual drug addicts, has within a couple blocks mentally wooed, shacked up with, married and had kids by that female, all in the future, all in his head, mentally dandling a young Gately on his mutton-joint knee while this mental Mrs.