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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 had a wood stove and no running water and a tin roof, rusted. It was a funky little shack."

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

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 • Feb. 17, 2026

The shack is like the setting for a horror movie.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender