shack
noun/ʃæk/
/ʃæk/
- a small building, usually made of wood or metal, that has not been built well
- The settlement consists only of shacks; there are no roads, no water, no street lighting.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- old
- little
- small
- …
- in a /the shack
Word Originlate 19th cent.: perhaps from Mexican jacal, Nahuatl xacatli ‘wooden hut’. The early sense of the verb was ‘live in a shack’ (originally a US usage).
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