| 释义 |
shack
noun- a house that exudes wealth and invites burglary US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 189, 1950
- especially in Tasmania, and south and west Australia, a holiday house of any size or quality AUSTRALIA
- They’d been coming to the Port for ages; their shack was one of the first ones here. We called it a shack but it was bigger and better than our houses. — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 149, 1998
- a room, apartment or house US
- — American Speech, p. 304, December 1955: “Wayne University slang”
- any room where a citizens’ band radio set is housed US
- — Len Buckwalter, CB Radio, p. 66, 1976
- a direct hit on the target by a bomb US
- A bulls-eye for an Air Force bomber is a “shack.” — Shreveport Journal, p. 4B, 1 February 1991
- a sexual episode US, 1995
- Tonight Dilworth, the one I had heard through the wall, had taken her to a motel for some shack and got her drunk[.] — Glendon Swarthout, Where the Boys Are, p. 179, 1960
- I heard about your shack with Matt last night. — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 9, April 1995
- a rear brakeman on a train US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 135, 1977
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