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Noun: shack  shak
  1. 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
Verb: shack  shak
  1. Make one's home in a particular place or community
    "The writer shacked in a small coastal town";
    - reside, domicile, domiciliate [rare], domicil [rare]
     
  2. 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