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shack

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Buildings shackshack1 /ʃæk/ noun [countable] TBBa small building that has not been built very well a tin shackExamples from the Corpusshack• An old woman emerges from a shack behind the cantina, buttoning up a torn housedress.• He lives in a shack with his wife and four children.• I've seen the homes they live in-mud-floored shacks with no sanitation or direct access to running water.• A girl of about sixteen stands in the doorway of the little shack that is connected to the store.• It is a community of tar-paper shacks and few prospects.• They lived in a one-room shack.• It was small, but seemed surprisingly well stocked for a peasant's shack.• Brucha has lived in his off-trail shack for 14 years, and in that time, he has made it his own.• The run-down villas and cement footpaths give way to dusty tracks and wooden shacks.shackshack2 verb → shack up → See Verb table Origin shack1 (1800-1900) Perhaps from shackly "likely to fall down" ((19-20 centuries)), or from Mexican Spanish jacal "small building", from Nahuatl xacalli
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Verb table
shack
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they shack
he, she, it shacks
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they shacked
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have shacked
he, she, it has shacked
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had shacked
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will shack
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have shacked
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Continuous Form
Present
I am shacking
he, she, it is shacking
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you, we, they are shacking
Past
I, he, she, it was shacking
you, we, they were shacking
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been shacking
he, she, it has been shacking
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been shacking
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be shacking
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been shacking
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