Noun: shack shak
- Small crude shelter used as a dwelling
"The refugees were forced to live in shacks on the outskirts of the city";
- hovel, hut, hutch, shanty
- Make one's home in a particular place or community
"The writer shacked in a small coastal town";
- reside, domicile, domiciliate [rare], domicil [rare]
- Move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
"The tired hikers shacked back to camp";
- trail
Derived forms: shacks, shacking, shacked
Type of: dwell, go, inhabit, live, locomote, move, populate, shelter, travel
Encyclopedia: Shack