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shacky

[shak-ee]

adjective

shackier, shackiest 
  1. run-down; dilapidated.

    a shacky old place.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of shacky1

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Example Sentences

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The newlyweds moved into what Mary called a “run-down, shacky house,” and when Paul Ellis died C.P.’s mother and sister moved in with them.

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“To look back on it now, we were in this little shacky place with no phone and no television,” Jody said.

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"It does look shacky but it's home, and I love it, you bet," she said.

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But when Joanna wanted a thing she did not mind paying for it, and she had wanted Great Ansdore very much, though no one knew better than she that it was shacky and mouldy.

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The knights mounted and rode in a line past the grandstand, and the king stopped the poor student, who had the worst horse and the poorest caparisons of any of the knights and said: "Sir Knight, prithee tell me of what that marvellous shacky and rusty-looking armor of thine is made?"

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