shack

noun · verb · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

shacks

1.
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
Đồng nghĩa: hovel, shanty, camp
2.
Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
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)(UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
8.
(countable, uncountable)(fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
9.
(Nigeria, countable, slang, uncountable)A drink, especially an alcoholic one.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

shacks

V_ing/Gerund

shacking

V_ed/pp

shacked

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

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more shack

Superlative

most shack

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

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

hovel shanty campcamp (regional)

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from xacalli (adobe hut).