Shack

Definition: Shack

Shack

Noun

1. Small crude shelter used as a dwelling.

Verb

1. Make one's home or live in; "There are only 250,000 people in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated".

2. To walk or proceed draggingly, slowly: "Snow buried the streets and covered the slanting rooftops, as John trudged toward St. Peter's.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shack" was first used: 1878. (references)

Literature

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Shack

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Crosswords: Shack

Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture (Mildred Pierce; writing credit: James M. Cain; Ranald MacDougall)

Fine, ditch the firm, head off to Maui, shack up with a supermodel, but you don't get the keep the Porsche (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Love Shack! Love Shack yeah yeah (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S)

Down past an old shack (Nowhere To Go; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)

Huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and a lovin' at the love shack ("Love Shack"; performing artist: The B-52's)

You are an engineer if you window shop at Radio Shack. (references; author: unknown)

Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack. Sheep should sleep in a shed. (references; author: unknown)

Blood Shack (1971)

Shack Out on 101 (1955)

Jack's Shack (1934)

Tumbledown Shack in Athlone (1926)

Universal Ike Junior in the Shack Next Door (1914)

Sugar Shack (performing artist: Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs)

Love Shack (performing artist: The B-52's)

Psychedelic Shack (performing artist: The Temptations)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Black Shack Alley (reference)

• Hunting Shack (reference)

• Radio Shack Company Profile [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Tandy's Money Machine: How Charles Tandy Built Radio Shack into the World's Largest Electronics Chain (reference)

• The Story of an Abandoned Shack (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• VeggieTales - Rack, Shack & Benny (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Back at the Chicken Shack (reference)

• Love Shack [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Shack Man (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• RADIO SHACK NAV 2002-CD WIN/NT (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dr. Goddard at his Launch Control Shack. Credit: NASA.

Muddy shoreline next to an abandoned shack. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A dilapidated fishing shack. Credit: America's Coastlines.

An old settler's shack in the San Juan Islands - at Garrison Bay State Park. Site of the old British fort. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Bait shack in Ocean Springs. Credit: Fisheries.

A migrant shack during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

A visiting (PHS?) nurse outside a shack with a mother and two children. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Front of shack with patent medicine advertisements] / [P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Marion Post Walcott]..

Group of men standing beside a shack; tall buildings in the background. Credit: Library of Congress.

American missiles shelling a Filipino shack with "I will return" notice from MacArthur. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Behind the shed there was a little shack built of scrap, scrap lumber and pieces of tin.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Dominican Rep

Non-food franchises include a Radio Shack Store, GNC Vitamin stores, Payless Shoes, Alphagraphics, Sir Speedy, Dry Clean USA, Mr. Movies, Ethan Allen, Meineke Mufflers, and a number of up-scale clothing outlets, including Benetton, Liz Claiborne and Versace. (references)

Haiti

The list of American companies with franchisees or affiliated local partners in Haiti includes Sears and Roebuck, Radio Shack, DHL, Federal Express, United Parcel Service, Culligan Water Technologies, and NAPA Auto Parts, Domino's Pizza, and Jerry's Subs and Pizza. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The policeman was charged, and the trial was scheduled for February 2002. A coroner's investigation into the March 2000 killing of David Browne, who was shot by the police SSU as they were taking him into custody for building a shack on the grounds of a secondary school, concluded that Browne died by "misadventure" (accident). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "shack": Common of shack ♦ shack up ♦ shack up with ♦ shack up with smb.. Additional references.

Beginning with "shack": shack-fork, shack-to.

Afrikaans

barak (barn, barrack, shanty, shed). (various references)

Albanian

kasolle (bothy, cabin, cot, hut, sconce, shanty, shelter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوخ (cabin, camp, chalet, cot, cottage, crib, hut, hutch, lodge, shanty, shebang, shed), ‏كشك (booth, box, hut, kiosk, stall), ‏حيي (bashful, breathe, exist, live, live well, modest), ‏تخشيبة (log cabin), ‏إلتصق ب (cleave), ‏أقام مع غيره (chum). (various references)

Bulgarian 

колиба (bothy, cabin, cot, crib, hovel, hut, kennel, shanty, wickiup), барака (hut, hutch, shed). (various references)

Chinese 

棚子 (shed). (various references)

Czech

chatrè (cabin, hovel, hut, shanty), chata (cabin, hut, loghouse, summer cottage). (various references)

Danish

lade (barn, barrack, shanty, shed), hytte (cabin, hut). (various references)

Dutch

keet (barn, barrack, shanty, shed, stand), barak (barn, barrack, shanty, shed), schuur (barn, barrack, shanty, shed, stand), loods (barn, barrack, pilot, shanty, shed, stand). (various references)

Esperanto

kabano (cabin, hut), barako (barn, barrack, shanty, shed). (various references)

Faeroese

smátta (cabin, cottage, hut), hola (cabin, cave, cavern, cavity, den, hut). (various references)

Farsi 

کلبه (Cabana, Cabin, Cottage, Hovel, Hull, Hut, Lodge, Shanty), کاشانه (Hut), زیستن (Be, Exist, Live), خانه کوچک وسردستی ساخته شده , خانه (Domicile, Home, House, Lodge, Room, Socket). (various references)

Finnish

tönö (cabin), tölli (cabin, hut), murju (hovel), mökki (cabin, cottage, hut), hökkeli (hovel, hut). (various references)

French

hutte, cabane (shanty, shed). (various references)

Frisian

skuorre (barn, barrack, shanty, shed), klinte (cabin, hut), hutte (cabin, hut). (various references)

German

Hütte (barn, booth, cabin, cot, cottage, hovel, hut, iron and steel works, Lodge, poop, shanty, shed, stand, tabernacle), Baracke (barn, barrack, hut, shanty, shed, stand, tent). (various references)

Greek 

καλύβη (cot, cottage, hovel, hut, shed), καλύβα (cabin, cottage, hut, shed), παλιόσπιτο. (various references)

Hebrew 

ביתן (cabin, hut, kiosk, pavilion, ward), בקתה (cottage, hut, shanty, shed), צריף (bungalow, hut, shed). (various references)

Hungarian

kunyhó (bothy, cabin, caboose, cottage, hootch, hovel, hut, Lodge, shanty, shebang), kaliba. (various references)

Italian

baracca (barn, barrack, hovel, hut, shanty, shed), capanna (booth, cabana, cabin, cot, hut, hutch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

仮小屋 (booth, hut, shed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かりごや (booth, hunting lodge, hut, shed). (various references)

Manx

bwaane (booth, cabin, cottage, cuddy on barge, hovel, hut, kiosk, outhouse, shanty, shed, shelter, stall, stand). (various references)

Norwegian

hytte (cabin, cottage, hut, lodge). (various references)

Papiamen

barak (barn, barrack, shanty, shed). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackshay.(various references)

Polish

chata (cabin, hut). (various references)

Portuguese

cabana (bothy, cabana, cabin, cot, cottage, crib, hangar, hovel, hut, hutch, lodge, shanty, shebang, shed), choupana (barrack, bothy, cabin, cot, crib, hole, hovel, hut, lodge, shanty, shed), choça (cabin, hovel, hut, shanty). (various references)

Romanian

loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), colibã (booth, hovel, humpy, hut, hutch, Lodge, sconce, shanty), cabanå (cabin, hut). (various references)

Russian 

хижина (cabin, crib, humpy, hut, wickiup), лачуга (hole, hovel, hut, shanty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

straćara (shanty, slum), probisvet (humbug, landloper, landlouper, picaroon, spiv, sundowner, tramp), koliba (bothy, cottage, hut, shieling), baraka (barrack, hut, log hut), ćumez (hovel, shanty). (various references)

Spanish

cobertizo (barn, barrack, boathouse, hut, outbuilding, penthouse, shanty, shed, shelter), cabana (cabin, hut), choza (hovel, hut, hutch), barraca (barn, barrack, cabin, hut, shanty, shed). (various references)

Swahili

kibanda (cabin, hut). (various references)

Swedish

hydda (cabin, cottage, crib, hut, hutch, Lodge, shanty), timmerkoja (log hut), skjul (hovel, shanty, shed). (various references)

Thai

กระท่อม (cottage, hut, lodge). (various references)

Turkish

kulübe (booth, box, cabin, Cote, cottage, crib, hovel, hut, hutch, kiosk, kiosque, Lodge, shanty, shed). (various references)

Turkmen 

kьme (hut). (various references)

Ukrainian

халупа (barrack, bothy, cabin, hovel, shebang), шкапа (jade, nag, rip, weed), нероба (bauchle, dangler, dawdler, dead beat, do nothing, do-naught, fribble, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, loiterer, loon, ne'er do well, rambler, scamp, skulk, spalpeen, waster), бродяжити (hike, tramp, vagabondize). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quả rơi rụng, lán (shanty), kẻ lang thang đầu đường xó chợ, kẻ lêu lỏng. (various references)

canaba, casa. (various references)

shackly. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shack": shackle, shacklebone, shacklebones, shackled, shackler, shacklers, shackles, shackling, shacko, shackoes, shackos, shacks. (additional references)

Words ending with "shack": cookshack. (additional references)

Words containing "shack": cookshacks, ramshackle, unshackle, unshackled, unshackles, unshackling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hsac, oshac, sahk, Schack, Schacke, Schak, Schrack, Shach, shacky, shacl, shak, shapka, shawk, shc, shec, sheck, Shefc, shek, Shiach, shick, Shico, Shishko, shmack, shocky, Sjak, spack. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hacks.

-1 letter: cash, cask, hack, sack.

-2 letters: ash, ask, has, kas, sac, sha, ska.

-3 letters: ah, as, ha, ka, sh.

+1 letter: chalks, charks, haceks, shacko, shacks, thacks, whacks.

+2 letters: chabuks, chakras, charkas, chukars, chukkas, hackees, hackers, hackies, hackles, hacksaw, hassock, hijacks, hopsack, klatsch, kwachas, ricksha, shackle, shackos, shicksa, thwacks, whackos.

+3 letters: backhoes, backlash, backrush, backwash, bechalks, blackish, brackish, cashbook, chabouks, champaks, charkhas, chukkars, crankish, hackbuts, hacklers, hackneys, hacksaws, haddocks, hammocks, hassocks, hatracks, haycocks, hayracks, hayricks, haystack, hoecakes, hogbacks, hopsacks, hotcakes, jackfish, kachinas, kickshaw, klatches, quackish, rickshas, rickshaw, shackled, shackler, shackles, shackoes, shaddock, shamrock, shellack, shicksas, shoepack, whackers.