as in hut
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling lived just off the beach in a crude shanty

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Recent Examples on the Web Most of the mining towns in the area were just tent camps or shanty towns that wouldn’t last more than a year or two. Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2023 Its barely visible tents and shanties melt into vistas of the downtown skyline and San Gabriel Mountains to the north and the flat expanse of city south to the sea. Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024 Protesters compared their struggle for divestment to the struggles for divestment from South Africa in the 1980s, when demonstrators set up a shanty on campus in Ann Arbor to symbolize the sufferings of Black people under apartheid rule. Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2024 One of my arrests on the Homewood campus took place when the administration decided to remove a shanty erected as a protest to South African apartheid. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for shanty 

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“Shanty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shanty. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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