shanty
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1. shanty - Noun
2. shanty - Adjective
3. shanty - Verb
Meaning
Jaunty; showy.
A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for temporary use; a hut.
To inhabit a shanty.
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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.
As populations expand in poorer countries, rural people are flocking to cities in an extensive urban migration that is resulting in the creation of massive shanty towns and slums.
As a result, a huge influx of immigrants occurred, including many from Ireland and China, gathering in a collection of prospecting shanty towns around the creeks and hills.
"Great Sporting Scandals". p. 227. Robson, 2003 The goal itself has been viewed as an embodiment of the Buenos Aires shanty town Maradona was brought up in and its concept of viveza criolla — "native cunning".
In addition to interpreting visual ethnic caricatures, the Irish American ideal of transitioning from the shanty citation to the lace curtain became a model of economic upward mobility for immigrant groups.