shack
[noun]
Synonyms: hut, cabin, shanty

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I. shack¹ /ʃæk/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: Perhaps from shackly 'likely to fall down' (19-20 centuries), or from Mexican Spanish jacal 'small building', from Nahuatl xacalli]
a small building that has not been built very well:
a tin shack

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II. shack² verb
shack up phrasal verb informal
to start living with someone who you have sex with but are not married to – used to show disapproval
shack up with
She had shacked up with some guy from Florida.
be shacked up
Is she shacked up with anyone?

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shack
noun
ADJ. tin, wooden | derelict, dilapidated, run-down
PREP. in a /the ~

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