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[shak] 
—Verb phrase
| 3. | shack up, Slang.
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Origin:
1875–80, Americanism; cf. earlier shackly rickety, prob. akin to ramshackle (MexSp jacal “hut” is a phonetically impossible source)
1875–80, Americanism; cf. earlier shackly rickety, prob. akin to ramshackle (MexSp jacal “hut” is a phonetically impossible source)
shack
2 [shak] –verb (used with object) Informal.
| to chase and throw back; to retrieve: to shack a ground ball. |
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| shack (shāk) n. A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty. intr.v. shacked, shack·ing, shacks To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses. [Possibly from American Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli, adobe hut : xámitl, adobe + calli, house, hut.] |
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Shack
Shack\, n. [Cf. Shack, v. i.] A hut; a shanty; a cabin. [Colloq.] These miserable shacks are so low that their occupants cannot stand erect. --D. C. Worcester.Shack
Shack\, v. t. [Prov. E., to shake, to shed. See Shake.]1. To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. [Prov. Eng.] --Grose. 2. To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.] 3. To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. [Prev.Eng.]Shack
Shack\, n. [Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats.]1. The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.] 3. A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. --H. W. Beecher. Common of shack (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest. --Cowell.
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Language Translation for : Shack
Spanish:
choza,
German:
die Baracke,
Japanese:
小屋
shack
1878, Amer.Eng. and Canadian Eng., of unknown origin, perhaps from Mex.Sp. jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli "wooden hut." Or perhaps a back-formation from dial. Eng. shackly "shaky, rickety" (1843), a derivative of shack, a dial. variant of shake (q.v.). Another theory derives shack from ramshackle. Slang verb phrase shack up "cohabit" first recorded 1935 (in Zora Neale Hurston).
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