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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shack/ʃak/

▶noun a roughly built hut or cabin. ▶verb (shack up) informal move in or live with someone as a lover.

– origin C19: perh. from Mexican jacal, Nahuatl xacatli ‘wooden hut’.

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