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shackie
[< shack + -ie, presumably influenced by shanty]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a cheap and hastily constructed house, store, etc.
Quotations
1958
Learning in advance that the highway was to be built, they rushed in to buy up properties around the business district on which to build shackies to rent for exhorbitant sums.