shack
A crude, roughly built hut or cabinA crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
» Tom broke into the deserted shack.
Tom brach in die verlassene Hütte ein.
Meaning
9 sensesA crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
Hütte, Bude
лачу́гаlačúga, хи́жинаxížina, хиба́ркаxibárka
халу́паxalúpa, хати́нкаxatýnka, бара́кbarák
Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
(slang)The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
(countable, uncountable)Bait that can be picked up at sea.
(Nigeria, countable, slang, uncountable)A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
(UK, US, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Examples
56 sentencesTom broke into the deserted shack.
deTom brach in die verlassene Hütte ein.
Have you been inside that shack?
Tom didn't find anyone in the shack.
Tom didn't find anybody in the shack.
Tom kept some belongings in the shack.
Translations
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Origin
Unknown. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (Unknown. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”).
Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).
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