Shacks

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We are located at 583 Frederick Road, Catonsville, MD 21228. Our phone number is 410-788-0879. We look forward to seeing you soon! A shack (or, less often, shanty) is a type of small, often primitive shelter or dwelling.Like huts, shacks are constructed by hand using available materials; however, whereas huts are usually rural and made of natural materials (mud, rocks, sticks, etc.) shacks are generally composed of scavenged man-made materials like abandoned construction debris, repurposed consumer waste and other useful. Answers for Shacks crossword clue. Search for crossword clues found in the Daily Celebrity, NY Times, Daily Mirror, Telegraph and major publications. Find clues for Shacks or most any crossword answer or clues for crossword answers.

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ʃæk/
  • Audio (UK)
  • Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1[edit]

Origin unknown. Some authorities derive this word from Mexican Spanishjacal, from Nahuatlxacalli(“adobe hut”).[1]

Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly.[2]

Noun[edit]

shack (pluralshacks)

  1. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎[1]:
      The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
  2. Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
  3. (slang) The room from which a ham radiooperator transmits.
Translations[edit]
  • Arabic: please add this translation if you can
  • Armenian: խրճիթ(hy)(xrčitʿ)
  • Belarusian: хаці́на(xacína), халу́паf(xalúpa)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 寮(zh)(liáo), 棚屋(zh)(péngwū), 棚子(zh)(péngzi)
  • Czech: chatrč(cs)f
  • Danish: skur(da), hytte
  • Dutch: hut(nl)f, krot(nl)n
  • Esperanto: domaĉo(eo)
  • Finnish: hökkeli(fi), tönö(fi)
  • French: cabanon(fr)m, baraque(fr)f
  • Galician: cafúaf, naguelaf, bargaf, choupanaf
  • Georgian: ქოხი(koxi), ჯიხური(ǯixuri)
  • German: Hütte(de)f, Bude(de)f
  • Greek: καλύβα(el)f(kalýva)
  • Hebrew: צְרִיף‎(he)(tsrif)
  • Hindi: झुग्गी(hi)f(jhuggī), झुगिया(hi)f(jhugiyā), झोपड़ी(hi)f(jhopṛī), कुटियाf(kuṭiyā)
  • Icelandic: kofi(is), skúr(is), hreysi(is)
  • Indonesian: gubuk(id)
  • Italian: topaia(it)f, stamberga(it)f, capannone(it)m, baracca(it)f, tugurio(it)m, capanno(it)m, bicocca(it)f
  • Japanese: 小屋(ja)(こや, koya), 仮小屋(かりごや, karigoya), 掘っ立て小屋(ほったてごや, hottate-goya)
  • Latin: tuguriumn
  • Maori: pākorokoro
  • Persian: آلونک‎(fa)(âlunak), کریج‎(fa)(karij)
  • Plautdietsch: Scheddf
  • Portuguese: barraco(pt), choupana(pt)f, cabana(pt)f, casebre(pt)m, tugúriom
  • Russian: лачу́га(ru)f(lačúga), хи́жина(ru)f(xížina), хиба́рка(ru)f(xibárka), халу́па(ru)f(xalúpa), ха́тка(ru)f(xátka), время́нка(ru)f(vremjánka), сара́й(ru)m(saráj)
  • Serbo-Croatian: koliba(sh)f
  • Slovak: búda(sk)f, chatrčf
  • Slovene: bajta
  • Spanish: barraca(es)f, (Colombia)cambuche(es)m, (Panama)casa brujam, (Spain)chabola(es)f, (El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua)champa(es)f, (Mexico)jacal(es)m, (Argentina, Venezuela)rancho(es)m, (Costa Rica)tugurio(es)m
  • Ukrainian: халу́паf(xalúpa), хати́нкаf(xatýnka)

Verb[edit]

shack (third-person singular simple presentshacks, present participleshacking, simple past and past participleshacked)

  1. To live (in or with); to shack up.
Translations[edit]
  • Arabic: please add this translation if you can
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
  • Danish: (please verify)leve sammen med, sove hos
  • Esperanto: kunloĝi
  • Finnish: asua(fi), bunkata
  • Italian: convivere(it), coabitare(it)
  • Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2[edit]

Shacksbury

Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scotsshag(“refuse of barley or oats”). Privateebooks free download.

Noun[edit]

shack (countable and uncountable, pluralshacks)

  1. (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
  2. (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  3. (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
    • 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke[2]
      […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
    • 1996, J M Neeson, Commoners[3]
      The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
  4. (Britain,US,dialect,obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerantbeggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)
    • 1868, Henry Ward Beecher, Norwood, or Village Life in New England
      All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
  5. (fishing)Bait that can be picked up at sea.
Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

Top malo pdf. shack (third-person singular simple presentshacks, present participleshacking, simple past and past participleshacked)

  1. (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  2. (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
    • 1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke[4]
      […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
  3. (Britain,dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
  4. (US,intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.

References[edit]

  1. ^ “shack” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
  2. ^ “shack” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams[edit]

  • hacks, schak
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be shacked up with (someone)

1. To be living or sharing accommodations with someone while having a casual sexual relationship with them. I haven't seen my sister in weeks. I hear she's been shacked up with some guy from Oklahoma these days.I was shacked up for a while with a woman I met downtown, but I've been on my own for the last couple of months.
2. To temporarily share accommodations with someone. A: 'Do you have a place to stay while you're in town for the wedding?' B: 'Yeah, I'm shacked up with my brother and his fiancée for the weekend.'

shack up (with someone)

1. To live with someone or stay at someone's house temporarily. We've been shacking up at my brother's place while our house is being renovated.Do you mind if I shack up with you for a while? My wife and I are going through a bit of a rough patch.
2. To be in a sexual relationship with someone; to live or reside with someone in a sexual relationship. A: 'I haven't seen Beth in a while.' B: 'She's been shacking up with some hotshot lawyer she started dating a few weeks ago.'My parents still disapprove of us shacking up together before we're married. They're a little old-fashioned that way.
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shacked up

1. Living or sharing accommodations with someone while having a (usually casual) sexual relationship with them. I haven't seen my sister in weeks. I hear she's shacked up with some guy from Oklahoma these days.I was shacked up for a while with a woman I met downtown, but I've been on my own for the last couple of months.
2. Temporarily sharing accommodations with someone. A: 'Do you have a place to stay while you're in town for the wedding?' B: 'Yeah, I'm shacked up with my brother and his fiancée for the weekend.'

shotgun shack

(chiefly Southern United States slang) A one-story house in which each room is in a straight alignment with the others, connected by a continuous hallway running from the front to the back of the residence. When our whole family goes to stay in my grandmother's shotgun shack in New Orleans, it always feels like we're all right on top of one another.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

shack up (with someone)

Inf. to sleep or live with someone temporarily in a sexual relationship. They shacked up for over a year until her parents found out and stopped sending her money.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

shack up

1. Sleep together or live in sexual intimacy without being married. For example, They had been dating for two months and then decided to shack up. [Slang; first half of 1900s]
2. Stay or reside with, as in I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own. [Slang; first half of 1900s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

shack up

v.Slang
1. To live, room, or stay at some place: She's shacking up at her cousin's house until she finds a place of her own.

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2. To sleep together or live in sexual intimacy with someone without being married: There's a rumor that the professor is shacking up with one of his colleagues. Do you know if they are shacking up together?
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

shack up (with someone)

1. in. to have a one-night stand with someone; to copulate [with] someone. He only wanted to shack up with me.
2. in. to move in with someone temporarily, presumably for sexual purposes. They shacked up for over a year until her parents found out and stopped sending her money.

shack up

verb
See also: shack, up
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

shack up

Slang

Shackshuka

1. To live together and have sexual relations without being married.
2. To live, room, or stay at a place: I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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