Definition of shack
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: a room or similar enclosed structure for a particular person or use
- a guard shack
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Examples of shack in a Sentence
an old shack in the woods
a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms
Recent Examples of shack from the Web
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Quietly, Wood Shop BBQ, home to one of the city’s best Texas-style briskets, has set up shop in Lower Queen Anne, by the shack Citizen.
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The little barbecue shack watched business double, then triple.
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The coyotes took us to a dusty, dilapidated shack on an old, dirt road, surrounded by nothingness, with the U.S. border on the horizon.
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By the following afternoon, Kidder had made her way downtown, a distance of some 20 miles, and was taken in by a homeless man named Charlie who gave her shelter in his cardboard shack.
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The second phase would be more extensive and consist of major repairs to facility's parking lot, fencing, landscaping and the guard shack.
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The new wife was hardhearted and lived a hoarder's life in a three-room shack in the country.
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Located on New York’s eastern coast beyond the posh Hamptons, Bob Gosman Company opened in Montauk as a mom-and-pop clam shack more than six decades ago.
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Located on New York's eastern coast beyond the posh Hamptons, Bob Gosman Company opened in Montauk as a mom-and-pop clam shack more than six decades ago.
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Origin and Etymology of shack
probably back-formation from English dialect shackly rickety
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First Known Use: 1878
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of shack for English Language Learners
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: a small house or building that is not put together well
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