shack /ʃæk/noun 9verb 6forms 3phrases 1 noun9 •A crude, roughly built hut or cabin. •Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen. — 1944 •(slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits. •(Nigeria, slang) A drink, especially an alcoholic one. •Bait that can be picked up at sea. •(no longer used) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest. •(no longer used) Nuts which have fallen to the ground. •(dialect, no longer used) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing. — 1866 •(no longer used) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack. — 1996 verb6 •To live (in or with); to shack up. •(US) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters. •(Nigeria, slang) To drink, especially alcohol. •(dialect, UK) To wander as a vagabond or tramp. •(no longer used) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. •(no longer used) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles. — 1867 formsshacked · shacking · shacks Phrases with shack shack upTo live together, especially of an unmarried couple.
