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[ shak ] / ʃæk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shack ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna rough cabin; shanty. Informal. radio shack. Verb Phrasesshack up, Slang. - to live together as spouses without being legally married.
- to have illicit sexual relations.
- to live in a shack: He's shacked up in the mountains.
Origin of shack11875–80, Americanism; compare earlier shackly rickety, probably akin to ramshackle (Mexican Spanish jacal “hut” is a phonetically impossible source) Words nearby shackShabuoth, shabu-shabu, Shacharis, Shacharith, Shache, shack, shacket, shackle, Shackleton, shacko, shack-tapping Definition for shack (2 of 2)[ shak ] / ʃæk /
verb (used with object) Informal.to chase and throw back; to retrieve: to shack a ground ball. Origin of shack21825–35, Americanism; apparently special use of dial. shack to shake Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shackFor many, many good reasons, school is not an ideal time to shack up with your soul mate. Dear Princeton Mom, Stop Telling Me To Husband-Hunt|Emily Shire|February 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Heading into the small makeshift kitchen inside his shack he retrieved a large jar of polenta. Two Chickens, an Old Guitar, and a Group of Strangers: A Life-Changing Feast in Brazil|Annabel Langbein|November 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST “Yet on May 23, 1976, a Sunday morning, 300 heavily armed soldiers with police vans surrounded our shack,” writes Jalics. Argentina’s Dirty War Casts a Pall Over Bergoglio|Christopher Dickey|March 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST So duck into parm and sandwich Little Italy and NOLA together, or grab him a burger from the shack where the lines take forever. Band of Outsiders Stages Scavenger Hunt for Fall 2013 Collection|Misty White Sidell|February 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Supermodel Roommates: Models Cara Delevingne and Georgia May Jagger are about to shack up…. Marc Jacobs for Diet Coke, Delevingne and Jagger Shack Up|The Fashion Beast Team|February 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST Yet she looked again at his shack, with her lower lip in the bite of her teeth. The Peace of Roaring River|George van Schaick The little party now proceeded to creep around to the front of the shack. The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound|George A. Warren Even this did not waken him, though he thought he was back at the shack by the tar kiln. Ralph Granger's Fortunes|William Perry Brown They passed down the pine-covered path slowly, and as they neared Gaston's shack, Filmer paused. Joyce of the North Woods|Harriet T. Comstock Early in the afternoon, on looking out the shack door, I saw a tangle of clouds on the sky-line. The Prairie Wife|Arthur Stringer
British Dictionary definitions for shack (1 of 2)
nouna roughly built hut Southern African temporary accommodation put together by squatters Word Origin for shackC19: perhaps from dialect shackly ramshackle, from dialect shack to shake British Dictionary definitions for shack (2 of 2)
verbMidland English dialect to evade (work or responsibility) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shackshed, shelter, lean-to, hut, cottage, cabin, camp |