1TBBa small building that has not been built very well 简陋的小屋,棚屋
a tin shack
铁皮棚屋
Examples from the Corpus
shack• An old woman emerges from a shack behind the cantina, buttoning up a torn housedress.• He lives in a shack with his wife and four children.• I've seen the homes they live in-mud-floored shacks with no sanitation or directaccess to running water.• A girl of about sixteen stands in the doorway of the little shack that is connected to the store.• It is a community of tar-paper shacks and few prospects.• They lived in a one-room shack.• It was small, but seemed surprisingly well stocked for a peasant's shack.• Brucha has lived in his off-trail shack for 14 years, and in that time, he has made it his own.• The run-downvillas and cementfootpaths give way to dustytracks and woodenshacks.
shack2 verb
1shack upphrasal verbphr v informalLIVE WITH somebodyto start living with someone who you have sex with but are not married to – used to show disapproval 同居〔含贬义〕
with
She had shacked up with some guy from Florida.
她和一个佛罗里达人同居了。
be shacked up
Is she shacked up with anyone?
她是不是和谁同居了?
Originshack1
(1800-1900) Perhaps from shackly“likely to fall down”((19-20 centuries)), or from Mexican Spanishjacal“small building”, from Nahuatlxacalli