Shack
noun
A simple and small house or building, often made of weak materials.
He lives in a little shack by the river.
Often appears as...
- fishing shack
- tin shack
verb
To live or stay in a shack or similar living space.
He is shacking up in a small cabin in the woods for a few weeks.
Often appears as...
- shack up with
- shack up in
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A simple and small house or building, often made of weak materials.
He lives in a little shack by the river.
Often appears as...
- fishing shack
- tin shack
verb
To live or stay in a shack or similar living space.
He is shacking up in a small cabin in the woods for a few weeks.
Often appears as...
- shack up with
- shack up in
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Housing Quality
Implies a lack of comfort or luxury, often temporary or improvised housing.
During the gold rush, miners lived in shacks near the mines.
Pro Tip 2/3Rustic Charm
Sometimes used nostalgically or affectionately for quaint or simple rural dwellings.
We spent our summer in an old fishing shack by the lake.
Pro Tip 3/3Poverty Indicator
Can be used to signify economic hardship or poor living conditions.
Families in that area were living in shacks with no running water.
Pro Tip 1/3Housing Quality
Implies a lack of comfort or luxury, often temporary or improvised housing.
During the gold rush, miners lived in shacks near the mines.
Pro Tip 2/3Rustic Charm
Sometimes used nostalgically or affectionately for quaint or simple rural dwellings.
We spent our summer in an old fishing shack by the lake.
Pro Tip 3/3Poverty Indicator
Can be used to signify economic hardship or poor living conditions.
Families in that area were living in shacks with no running water.
Pro Tip 1/3Housing Quality
Implies a lack of comfort or luxury, often temporary or improvised housing.
During the gold rush, miners lived in shacks near the mines.
Pro Tip 2/3Rustic Charm
Sometimes used nostalgically or affectionately for quaint or simple rural dwellings.
We spent our summer in an old fishing shack by the lake.
Pro Tip 3/3Poverty Indicator
Can be used to signify economic hardship or poor living conditions.
Families in that area were living in shacks with no running water.
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Video examples
Proof: Steve Winter on...
so funny on my first story I was you know one-room shack on top of a mountain Guatemala when I heard the stairs creaking at night and then I hear this scratching under the door and then and the hair on back my head stood I grabbed the radio and called down the mountain to juan carlos and they said in spanish
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Gordon Tries Bika PIPE...
Fortunately, in Sumatra, street food is a way of life. On almost every corner, vendors hock freshly made snacks from pushcarts or hole-in-the-wall shacks, like this one selling bika, a tea cake made from coconut. What is this? Really good. It's everyone's favorite.
Video examples
Blueprint for a quiet...
he's happy he's productive he's in a loving marriage so it turns out that embracing their quiet nature does not cause introverts to flee to a shack in the woods it empowers them to embrace the world but to do it for the first time on their own terms now ironically
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Gauchos PIPE National...
the purest form of Gaucho life she no pudiera ramirez in el campo if I couldn't live in the Campo the countryside an unthinkable thought I don't know what I'd do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the city there's too much I'd miss the
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He Spent 40 Years Alone...
i lived in an eight by ten foot old shack and had no electricity no water and i had nothing and i was just there all day the main thing i interacted with was the weather and the animals so i started recording things just because it
Video examples
Gauchos PIPE National...
preserve the purest form of Gaucho life Shinobu lira we will a little camp if I couldn't live in a camp oh the countryside and unthinkable thought I don't know what I do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the
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The Way of the Gaucho PIPE...
believes solitude helps preserve the purest form of Gaucho life if I couldn't live in the Campo a countryside an unthinkable thought I don't know what I'd do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the city
Video examples
Let’s Help Refugees...
And they would cross the border into Lebanon, where they would find peace. But they would begin a life of grueling hardship and monotony. They had no choice but to build a shack
Video examples
How to disrupt...
little black boys and girls living in shotgun shacks or in housing projects in America cities feel like America is cheering them on that they are going to
Video examples
The myth of Zeus' test -...
But, again and again, they were turned away. Soon, there was just one door that of a small, thatched shack.
Video examples
Proof: Steve Winter on...
so funny on my first story I was you know one-room shack on top of a mountain Guatemala when I heard the stairs creaking at night and then I hear this scratching under the door and then and the hair on back my head stood I grabbed the radio and called down the mountain to juan carlos and they said in spanish
Video examples
Gordon Tries Bika PIPE...
Fortunately, in Sumatra, street food is a way of life. On almost every corner, vendors hock freshly made snacks from pushcarts or hole-in-the-wall shacks, like this one selling bika, a tea cake made from coconut. What is this? Really good. It's everyone's favorite.
Video examples
Blueprint for a quiet...
he's happy he's productive he's in a loving marriage so it turns out that embracing their quiet nature does not cause introverts to flee to a shack in the woods it empowers them to embrace the world but to do it for the first time on their own terms now ironically
Video examples
Gauchos PIPE National...
the purest form of Gaucho life she no pudiera ramirez in el campo if I couldn't live in the Campo the countryside an unthinkable thought I don't know what I'd do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the city there's too much I'd miss the
Video examples
He Spent 40 Years Alone...
i lived in an eight by ten foot old shack and had no electricity no water and i had nothing and i was just there all day the main thing i interacted with was the weather and the animals so i started recording things just because it
Video examples
Gauchos PIPE National...
preserve the purest form of Gaucho life Shinobu lira we will a little camp if I couldn't live in a camp oh the countryside and unthinkable thought I don't know what I do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the
Video examples
The Way of the Gaucho PIPE...
believes solitude helps preserve the purest form of Gaucho life if I couldn't live in the Campo a countryside an unthinkable thought I don't know what I'd do I'd rather live in a shack out here than in a palace in the city
Video examples
Let’s Help Refugees...
And they would cross the border into Lebanon, where they would find peace. But they would begin a life of grueling hardship and monotony. They had no choice but to build a shack
Video examples
How to disrupt...
little black boys and girls living in shotgun shacks or in housing projects in America cities feel like America is cheering them on that they are going to
Video examples
The myth of Zeus' test -...
But, again and again, they were turned away. Soon, there was just one door that of a small, thatched shack.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Karin Slaughter
American Writer
My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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Holly Willoughby
English Celebrity
You wouldn't expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.
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Chris Carmack
American Actor
I lived in a little shack in Santa Monica, and I was working on 'The O.C.' and when it started airing, I took my laundry down to the laundromat like I always had, and so many people along the two blocks I walked and in the laundromat stopped me and asked me for photographs.
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Stokely Carmichael
American Activist
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.
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Chris Stapleton
American Musician
I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.
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Christina Applegate
American Actress
My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.
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Michael Keaton
American Actor
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!
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Charlotte Bunch
American Activist
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
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Viola Davis
American Actress
My grandmother's house was a one room shack.
Quote examples
Georg Buchner
German Dramatist
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Quote examples
Karin Slaughter
American Writer
My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
Quote examples
Holly Willoughby
English Celebrity
You wouldn't expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.
Quote examples
Chris Carmack
American Actor
I lived in a little shack in Santa Monica, and I was working on 'The O.C.' and when it started airing, I took my laundry down to the laundromat like I always had, and so many people along the two blocks I walked and in the laundromat stopped me and asked me for photographs.
Quote examples
Stokely Carmichael
American Activist
Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.
Quote examples
Chris Stapleton
American Musician
I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.
Quote examples
Christina Applegate
American Actress
My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.
Quote examples
Michael Keaton
American Actor
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!
Quote examples
Charlotte Bunch
American Activist
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
Quote examples
Viola Davis
American Actress
My grandmother's house was a one room shack.
Quote examples
Georg Buchner
German Dramatist
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Example 1 of 10
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