shack

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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shack1 /ʃæk/ noun [countable]  1 TBBa small building that has not been built very well 简陋的小屋，棚屋 a tin shack 铁皮棚屋

Examples from the Corpus

shack• An old woman emerges from a shack behind the cantina, buttoning up a torn housedress.• He lives in a shack with his wife and four children.• I've seen the homes they live in-mud-floored shacks with no sanitation or direct access to running water.• A girl of about sixteen stands in the doorway of the little shack that is connected to the store.• It is a community of tar-paper shacks and few prospects.• They lived in a one-room shack.• It was small, but seemed surprisingly well stocked for a peasant's shack.• Brucha has lived in his off-trail shack for 14 years, and in that time, he has made it his own.• The run-down villas and cement footpaths give way to dusty tracks and wooden shacks.shack2 verb  1 shack up phrasal verb informal LIVE WITH somebodyto start living with someone who you have sex with but are not married to – used to show disapproval 同居〔含贬义〕 with She had shacked up with some guy from Florida. 她和一个佛罗里达人同居了。be shacked up Is she shacked up with anyone? 她是不是和谁同居了？→ See Verb tableOrigin shack1 (1800-1900) Perhaps from shackly “likely to fall down” ((19-20 centuries)), or from Mexican Spanish jacal “small building”, from Nahuatl xacalli

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shack

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shack¹ /ʃæk/ noun [countable]a small building that has not been built very well:
    a tin shack

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shack² verb
     
shack up phrasal verb informal
  to start living with someone who you have sex with but are not married to – used to show disapproval
    shack up with
    She had shacked up with some guy from Florida.
    be shacked up
    Is she shacked up with anyone?