Definition of "shack"

shack¹

/ʃæk/

noun
plural shacks
1. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
  Quotations
  The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
  1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎
2. Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
  Quotations
  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 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48
3. (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
verb
third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked
1. To live (in or with); to shack up.

shack²

/ʃæk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural shacks
1. (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
2. (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
3. (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
  Quotations
  […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
  1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke
  The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.
  1996, J M Neeson, Commoners
4. (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  Quotations
  Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.
  1866, Betsey Jane Ward, Book of Goaks
  All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.
  1868, Henry Ward Beecher, Norwood, or Village Life in New England
5. (fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
6. (Nigeria, slang) A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
verb
third-person singular simple present shacks, present participle shacking, simple past and past participle shacked
1. (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
2. (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
  Quotations
  They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.
  1867, “Journal of the Royal Agriculatural Socirty”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  […] first comes the case of tenants with a customary right to shack their sheep and cattle who have overburdened the fields with a larger number of beasts than their tenement entitles them to, or who have allowed their beasts to feed in the field out of shack time.
  1918, Christobel Mary Hoare Hood, The History of an East Anglian Soke
3. (UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
4. (US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
5. (Nigeria, slang) To drink, especially alcohol.

shack³

/ʃæk/

adjective
comparative more shack, superlative most shack
1. (Singapore, slang) Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.
  Quotations
  I suppose they could not really blame us for feeling so shack after doing PT, drill and other boring lessons in the morning.
  1994, C. S. Cheong, NS: An Air-Level Story, page 33

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