Thesaurus results for SHACKS

shacks

noun

plural of shack

as in huts

a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms

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Recent Examples of shacks Just south of downtown San Jose, about 100 people live on the banks of Coyote Creek, where footpaths and improvised bridges connect a community of tents and wooden shacks — the city’s last sprawling homeless encampment. —

Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026 Most schools take place in mud huts or shacks shared by dozens of young men, away from public glare. —

Mogomotsi Magome, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026 Most schools take place in mud huts or shacks shared by dozens of young men, away from public glare. —

ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026 Stroll through its 52-block historic district dotted with Victorian mansions, legendary seafood shacks, and an arts scene that far exceeds expectations for a small town. —

Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026 Once our fishing guide, Scott Allen, pulled up, the three of us climbed into his ATV to head to one of his six shacks on the frozen inlet. —

Robert Annis, Outside, 24 Feb. 2026 When Evelyn Nakano Glenn was a year old, she and her parents were forced out of their home in San Francisco and sent to a dusty, dry collection of tarpaper shacks with no insulation in the Gila River Indian Community's Sonoran Desert homelands about 30 miles southeast of Phoenix. —

Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 15 Feb. 2026 Church Avenue is revived, nearly every storefront occupied, jazz clubs mixing with Haitian bistros, home-loan shops, day-care centers, and Jamaican fish shacks. —

Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026 Once a week, according to residents, a black Dodge truck with tinted windows pulled up to a tent on the edge of the community, a dense maze of tiny shacks connected by muddy paths, slick from the persistent summer rain. —

Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2026

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Noun

About two hours away, Hotel Nesslerhof, in Hohe Tauern National Park, offers more than 400 kilometers of hiking and biking trails through alpine meadows, lakes and traditional mountain huts.

— Ramona Saviss, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
Most schools take place in mud huts or shacks shared by dozens of young men, away from public glare.

— Mogomotsi Magome, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026