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shacktown
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a community, or section of a town, etc., that is comprised of shacks.
Quotations
1923
Where little shack-towns rose, it knew there should be cities.
1960
The Eskimos who are not employed are gradually concentrating their numbers at almost every DEW site in the western Arctic with the subsequent build-up of "shacktowns" erected with discarded materials from the dumps.
1965
True, there are highly visible shack-towns . . . the French Line up in Lanark and, over a larger area of the Shield, the Ozarks of Ontario.