Shack

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty.
  • verb-intransitive. To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses.
  • idiom. shack up Slang To sleep together or live in sexual intimacy without being married.
  • idiom. shack up Slang To live, room, or stay at a place: I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
  • n. Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
  • v. To live in or with; to shack up.
  • n. Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
  • n. Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  • n. Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
  • n. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  • v. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  • v. To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  • v. To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
  • v. To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
  • n. a small simple dwelling, usually having only one room and of flimsy construction; a hut; a shanty; a cabin.
  • n. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  • n. Liberty of winter pasturage.
  • n. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To be shed or fall, as corn at harvest.
  • To feed on stubble, or upon the waste corn of the field.
  • To hibernate, as an animal, especially the bear: also said of men who “lay up” or “hole up” for the winter, or go into winter quarters.
  • n. Grain fallen from the ear and eaten by hogs, etc., after harvest; also, fallen mast or acorns.
  • n. Liberty of winter pasturage.
  • n. In the fisheries, bait picked up at sea by any means, as the flesh of porpoises or of sea-birds, refuse fish, etc., as distinguished from the regular stock of bait carried by the vessel or otherwise depended upon. Also shack-bait.
  • n. [⟨ shack, verb, 3.] A very roughly built house or cabin, especially such a one as is put up for temporary occupation while securing a claim under the United States preëmption laws.
  • To rove about, as a stroller or beggar.
  • To go after, as a ball batted to a distance.
  • n. A strolling vagabond; a shiftless or worthless fellow; a tramp.
  • n. A seafaring catch of fish made up of hake, pollack, and other cheap varieties, especially those of the cod family.
  • n. The right of common pasturage; the straying of cattle into public or on inclosed land.
  • Relating to a catch of sea-fish of the cheaper varieties, or of shack-bait.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make one's home in a particular place or community
  • n. small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  • v. move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
  • Verb Form
    shacked    shacking    shacks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    locomote    travel    move    go   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hut    shanty    cabin    vagabond    tramp   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adak    Black    Braque    Chirac    Jack    Jacques    Lak    Mac    Mack    Macke   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shanty    hut    hovel    dwelling    farmhouse    shed    tenement    barn    warehouse    barrack