Usually means: Small, crude shelter or dwelling.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word shack:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. shack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shack: Merriam-Webster
  3. shack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shack: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shack: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shack, shack: Wordnik
  8. shack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shack, shack: Wiktionary
  10. shack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shack: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shack: Dictionary.com
  14. shack: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shack (band), Shack (disambiguation), Shack, The Shack (film), The Shack (journalism), The Shack, The shack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shack: Rhymezone
  20. Shack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SHACK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Shack: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. shack: FreeDictionary.org
  25. shack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. shack: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shack: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. shack: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shack, shack, shack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SHACK, the shack: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shacking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
noun:  Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
noun:  (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
verb:  To live (in or with); to shack up.
noun:  (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
noun:  (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
noun:  (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
noun:  (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
noun:  (fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
noun:  (Nigeria, slang) A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
verb:  (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
verb:  (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
verb:  (UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
verb:  (US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
verb:  (Nigeria, slang) To drink, especially alcohol.
noun:  A surname.
adjective:  (Singapore, Singlish, slang) Alternative form of shag (“exhausted; tiring”) [(obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.]

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