Collocations for "shack"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "shack" in context.
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shack
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- the [neighborhood, area] is full of shacks
- a [rusty, rambling, dilapidated, crumbling] shack
- a shack in the [forest, hills, mountains, woods]
- a [forest] shack
- shacks [along the beach, on the edge of downtown]
- lives in a [tin, straw] shack
- his [house, home] is nothing but a shack
- slang: uses the place as a love shack
- more like a shack than [an apartment, a real home]
- (how do) you live in this shack?
- [row upon row, street after street] of shacks