shack

noun

1. A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.

   “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, […]”

2. Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.

   “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.”

3. (slang)The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.

   “[…] 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.”

   “1996, J M Neeson, Commoners http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521567742&id=2CqhjjiwLtEC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&sig=3geUREguU3vTYj_05PtAfzFODDA The fields were enclosed by Act in 1791, and Tharp gave the cottagers about thirteen acres for their right of shack.”

7. (UK, US, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

   “Some peple hev a fakilty two get along into the world, whilst others air poor shacks & good for nothing.”

   “All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble.”

8. (countable, uncountable)Bait that can be picked up at sea.
9. (Nigeria, countable, slang, uncountable)A drink, especially an alcoholic one.

verb

1. To live (in or with); to shack up.
2. (obsolete)To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
3. (obsolete)To feed in stubble, or upon waste.

   “They [turkeys] are then sold‥to the larger farmers to ‘shack’ upon the barley or oat stubbles.”

   “[…] 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.”

4. (UK, dialectal)To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
5. (US, intransitive)To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
6. (Nigeria, slang)To drink, especially alcohol.

adj

1. (Singapore, Singlish, alt-of, alternative, slang)Alternative form of shag (“exhausted; tiring”).

name

1. A surname.