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shack

[shak] / ʃæk /


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The South Carolina crab shack fried green tomatoes with a ramekin of remoulade.

From Salon

The FBI had tracked the Unabomber futilely for 18 years before his capture in a hermit’s shack in Montana in April 1996.

From Los Angeles Times

"They spread like a virus," security guard Princess Thoko Mlangeni, 33, told AFP outside her tin‑shack home overlooking the field, recalling how they first appeared on February  8.

From Barron's

I wasn’t anxious to go in now, because Cully’s place—no more than a shack—leaned considerably to the right.

From Literature

Our new school was little more than a series of shacks, like a poor cousin of our old one in Sogakope, and there were never enough teachers.

From Literature