Definitions for shacks

shacks shack

Spelling: [shak]
IPA: /ʃæk/

Shacks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in shacks (achkss).

Definitions for shacks

noun

  1. a rough cabin; shanty.
  2. Informal. radio shack.

Verb phrases

  1. shack up, Slang. to live together as spouses without being legally married. to have illicit sexual relations. to live in a shack:

verb (used with object)

  1. to chase and throw back; to retrieve:

Origin of shacks

1875-80, Americanism; compare earlier shackly rickety, probably akin to ramshackle (Mexican Spanish jacal “hut” is a phonetically impossible source)

Examples for shacks

Then you'll turn around and walk straight back to the shack.

But the shack filled with his disapproval of her reluctance to free him from his promise.

At the time she came to Martin's shack, she was potentially any one of a half dozen women.

For many, many good reasons, school is not an ideal time to shack up with your soul mate.

Supermodel Roommates: Models Cara Delevingne and Georgia May Jagger are about to shack up….

Now, waking, his hand was working nervously across the floor of the shack.

So duck into parm and sandwich Little Italy and NOLA together, or grab him a burger from the shack where the lines take forever.

“Yet on May 23, 1976, a Sunday morning, 300 heavily armed soldiers with police vans surrounded our shack,” writes Jalics.

Heading into the small makeshift kitchen inside his shack he retrieved a large jar of polenta.

There were three men camped in the shack here, and we spent the night with them.

Word Value for shacks
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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