Usually means: Poorly constructed and falling apart.
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  1. ramshackle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ramshackle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ramshackle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ramshackle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ramshackle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ramshackle, ramshackle: Wordnik
  7. ramshackle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ramshackle: Wiktionary
  9. ramshackle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ramshackle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ramshackle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ramshackle, ramshackle: Dictionary.com
  13. ramshackle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ramshackle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ramshackle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ramshackle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ramshackle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ramshackle: Rhymezone
  19. Ramshackle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ramshackle: Free Dictionary
  21. ramshackle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Ramshackle: The Word Detective
  23. ramshackle: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. ramshackle: Legal dictionary

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  1. ramshackle: Encyclopedia

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  1. Ramshackle: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
adjective:  Badly or carelessly organized.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To ransack.

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