as in hut
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling
a farmer's shack out in the fields that's used for lambing and as a shelter from storms
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Recent Examples of shack
There were many memories made there and the grandchildren loved their time at the deer shack.
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Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
That’s when detectives by chance discovered the gambling shack nearby.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
Better placement could also help camouflage the shack and Marshall hoped to find a cost-effective solution for Dish that would also be acceptable to the community.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
Originally Chimney Creek Fishing Camp, the shack was born with a table here and there, for a few days a week.
—Judy Garrison, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024
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There’s a massage hut on the adults-only side of the beach that’s calling your name.—
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He wasn’t born in a hospital, but to a midwife in a circular mud hut with a grass roof.—
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And 95-year-old David Schecter survived not one, but two extermination camps.—
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But what played out next within Alpine’s camp was not discussed with Komatsu.—
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Either way, that seems part of the driving force that compels her to get to the recording studio in the cabin and start channeling Kate Bush.—
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In the video -- obtained exclusively by ABC News -- passengers can be seen hanging upside down in the cabin, being held into their seats dangling only by their seatbelts.—
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“Shack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shack. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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