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shack

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1. shack - Noun

2. shack - Verb

3. Shack - Proper noun

Meaning

To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.

To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.

The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.

Liberty of winter pasturage.

A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless. Emil Cioran

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air. Christina Applegate

They passed a farmhouse, a simple shack surrounded by animals - a lazy burro, clucking chickens, a litter of pigs. The farmhouse stood alone in the desolate landscape. There was no sign of a living person anywhere. And then it was gone, lost in the swirling dust plume of the car. Michael Crichton

In a clap-board shack with a roof of tin, Where the rain came down and leaked within, A young mother frozen on a concrete floor, With a bottle and a box and a cradle of straw. Nick Cave

Then I added "Blah," with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world. Jack Kerouac

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles. Rachael Ray

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