Synonyms for shack

Grammar : Noun

Spell : shak

Phonetic Transcription : ʃæk

Définition of shack

Origin : 1878, American English and Canadian English, of unknown origin, perhaps from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli "wooden hut." Or perhaps a back-formation from dialectal English shackly "shaky, rickety" (1843), a derivative of shack, a dialectal variant of shake (v.). Another theory derives shack from ramshackle.
Slang meaning "house" attested by 1910. In early radio enthusiast slang, it was the word for a room or office set aside for wireless use, 1919, perhaps from earlier U.S. Navy use (1917). As a verb, 1891 in the U.S. West in reference to men who "hole up" for the winter; from 1927 as "to put up for the night;" phrase shack up "cohabit" first recorded 1935 (in Zora Neale Hurston).

noun shanty

Example sentences :

Now, waking, his hand was working nervously across the floor of the shack.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Then you'll turn around and walk straight back to the shack.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

But the shack filled with his disapproval of her reluctance to free him from his promise.
Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

At the time she came to Martin's shack, she was potentially any one of a half dozen women.
Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

There were three men camped in the shack here, and we spent the night with them.
Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace

As soon in fact, as he could make the trip to the shack and return.
Extract from : « Happy Ending » by Fredric Brown

He walked to a corner of the shack and turned off the tired air pump.
Extract from : « Beside Still Waters » by Robert Sheckley

He desired to hide himself; entering his shack, he pushed to the door.
Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson

Then Eyelids came in, and picked him up and carried him back to the shack.
Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson

He picked up a lantern and, having lighted it, left the shack.
Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson

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