Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shack
IPA transcription: [ʃ'æk]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty
    Meaning: small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Usage examples
  • He rushed from the shack, calling to the others.
  • The young inventor looked out of the wireless shack.
  • Very much refreshed, the boy ran back to the miners' shack.
  • So we stepped outside the shack and the dog stood close to me.
  • The shack rocked, and threatened to come down about their heads.
  • Mrs. Nestor came up the little hill to the shack where Tom was clicking away.
  • As a matter of fact there was not another can, except those in the kitchen shack.
  • The whole crowd of castaways, save the women, were gathered about the wireless shack.
  • Halfway down the slope was a shack and off beyond it stood a man with his back turned toward him.
  • "You can go back to bed, Rad," for the colored man, of late, had been sleeping in a shack on the Swift premises.