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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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Brown himself recently met Fisher brothers Bob and Bill for lunch at his usual seafood shack, Sam’s Grill, to discuss the state of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

"It was a little tenant farmer's house and it really was a love shack," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

He eventually found 7 ½ West End Court in Long Branch, New Jersey, a twenty-five-foot-wide shotgun shack that sat a few blocks away from the beach.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

He lives in a shack without running water and sees his family at best every six months.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

But then she saw it, up ahead: the shack.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis