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shack

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shack
1. a roughly built hut
2. South African temporary accommodation put together by squatters
shanty
1. A hut, usually of wood; a small structure of rough character.
2. A temporary building on a construction site used for storage or as a contractor’s office.
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About five years ago I started in to stick up a shack.
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The pair made the trip down on horseback and brought back the shack that was to be home for many years.
Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context
In a little shack in the woods that adjoined the high-road, which he had converted into a temporary studio, Lord Wetherby was working on a picture which he proposed to call 'Innocence', a study of a small Italian child he had discovered in Washington Square.
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