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shack

noun as in shanty

Strong match

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Madison went to a tavern the night of the 25th, but there were rumors that the British were coming to capture him, and he was evacuated to what has been called a “hovel in the woods,” possibly a shack belonging to a ferryman just above Great Falls.

She died when he was 12, and the gang MS-13 took over the house where they had been living, which was little more than a shack.

For Barack Obama, it’s the tolerance and opportunity that allowed a man whose father grew up in a “tin-roof shack” in Kenya to achieve any dream he wanted.

His “Night Spot” is a humble shack with grand ambitions, as is revealed by the sign announcing that it’s the Congo Club.

From stellar sushi to poke by the pound, from the Ritz-Carlton to roadside shacks, here’s where you should be eating right now.

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So, the Southside Smokehouse is more than a barbecue pit, a burger shack, or a Cajun kitchen.

Childress even kept his dead father Billy bound up and rotting in a nearby shack, Psycho-style.

Caddy Shack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Analyze This affirm it.

For many, many good reasons, school is not an ideal time to shack up with your soul mate.

It was just Mike Royko and his pal, Big Shack, and whatever their bleary musings happened to be that night three years ago.

Even the Chinese shrimp-pickers were lounging on the beach before their little shack village.

Bergin dug a big hole behind that ole vacant shack of hisn, and buried about a ton of tin cans.

After breakfast fixed up shack—shelves, benches, tools, etc.

All clear, Tom called, and there was a sudden rush of wet figures for the poor sanctuary of the tumbledown shack.

But Monte come to the shack and watched Cash through a knothole the size of one eye till Cash opened up his heart and the bag.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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