shack
/ʃæk/ · noun
Meaning
- A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
- Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
- The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
- To live (in or with); to shack up.
- Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
- Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
- Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
- A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- Bait that can be picked up at sea.
- To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
- To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
- To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
- To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
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