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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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
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Now, though, those same workers were walking out for the first time, and the union outfitted a defunct hot dog shack across from the plant into a headquarters.
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Another was an aerial view of a seaside town, complete with clam shack and lighthouse.
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When Sweetgreen launched in a former burger shack in 2007, the walls were covered in lime green paint and there was a mural of a white tree that stretched its branches to the roof.
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In a humorous twist of fate, however, Frasher learned the restaurant was originally built in the 1960s to house another fried chicken shack, Ozark Fried Chicken.
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Still, in a country of 1.3 billion, where many people can barely afford $100 a month to rent a shack in a crowded shantytown, apartments in the Trump Towers complex in Gurgaon run between $775,000 and $1.5 million.
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The outside of the port was ringed with everything from jewelry stores and tourist shops to little shacks at Straw Market packed with local vendors.
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It has been closed since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall and brought powerful winds that wrecked light poles, fencing, bus shelters, signs and a guard shack.
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Last year, the Malahans decided to convert HB Seafood, their small clam-shack style restaurant on New Britain Avenue, into a modern noodle bar with Korean, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese dishes.
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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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