Usually means: Small, crude shelters or buildings.
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  1. shacks: Merriam-Webster
  2. shacks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shacks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shack's, Shacks, shack's, shacks: Wordnik
  5. shacks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Shacks, shacks: Wiktionary
  7. shacks: Dictionary.com
  8. shacks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. shacks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shacks: Encyclopedia

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  1. shacks: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shack as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shack)

noun:  A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
noun:  Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
noun:  (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
verb:  To live (in or with); to shack up.
noun:  (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
noun:  (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
noun:  (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
noun:  (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
noun:  (fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
noun:  (Nigeria, slang) A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
verb:  (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
verb:  (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
verb:  (UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
verb:  (US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
verb:  (Nigeria, slang) To drink, especially alcohol.
noun:  A surname.
adjective:  (Singapore, Singlish, slang) Alternative form of shag (“exhausted; tiring”) [(obsolete) Hairy; shaggy.]
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