| 单词 | shack |
| 释义 | shack (once / 1239 pages) 1nv 2v A shack is a small, rundown building used as a shelter. To shack is to live somewhere. If you tell your parents you want to shack up with your best friend, prepare to get grounded. A shack is a tiny, crude shelter that one person might be living in. It’s not well maintained, and it probably has peeling paint and a leaky roof. A shack is a big step below a house and a small step above a refrigerator box. To shack is to live somewhere, especially somewhere that's not nice. Shacking up is kind of like crashing on someone’s couch, or living somewhere temporarily. WORD FAMILYshack: shacked, shacking, shacks USAGE EXAMPLESAt the scene, a firefighter from Kenya immediately ran into a shack and rescued a mother who was asleep with her baby. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) Entrepreneurs are jockeying to be the Shake Shack of Chinese dumplings, of vegan food, of Lebanese flatbread, of Japanese ramen noodles, of artisanal fried chicken. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) In exchange for tending the landowner’s animals in their remote mountain village, the Chavez family got the use of a leaky wooden shack. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1n small crude shelter used as a dwelling Syn|Hypo|Hyper hovel, hut, hutch, shanty igloo, iglu an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome mudhifa reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained shelter a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger 2v make one's home in a particular place or community 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper domicile, domiciliate, reside rusticate live in the country and lead a rustic life dwell, inhabit, live, populate inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of v move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly Syn|Hyper trail go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically |
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