shacks
Ramshackle little dwellings
Shacks is the plural of shack, a small, crudely built dwelling or shelter.
Shacks suggest poverty, impermanence, or makeshift construction: fishing shacks along the pier, The workers lived in shacks at the edge of the plantation.
To shack up is to live with someone, usually a romantic partner, in informal or temporary arrangements.
Simple wooden dwelling
shanty · hovel · bungalow · outhouse · treehouse · one-room · wooden · clapboard
Badly deteriorated from neglect
- rundownQuick overview of facts
- decrepitWorn by age
- tumbledownRuined through neglect
- crumblingBreaking down gradually
derelict · abandoned · neglected · weathered · rotting · collapsing · condemned · disrepair
Created without prior planning
- cobbled-togetherAssembled from random parts
- thrown-togetherAssembled hastily, without care
- jury-riggedTemporarily fixed with scraps
- patchworkFabric scraps sewn together
crude · rough-hewn · corrugated · tarpaulin · plywood · cardboard · salvaged · repurposed
Impoverished urban district
- shantytownPoor area of crude shelters
- favelaBrazilian informal settlement
- squatterUnauthorized building inhabitant
- townshipCounty's smaller division
overcrowded · squalid · impoverished · destitute · subsistence · underprivileged · marginalized
Simple wooden dwelling
- logSectioned tree trunk
- woodenMade from timber
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
pastoral · countryside · backcountry · trapper · hillbilly · Appalachian · outback · bush
cabin
Simple wooden dwelling
shed · shanty · hovel · bungalow · outhouse · treehouse · one-room · wooden · clapboard
ramshackle
Badly deteriorated from neglect
- rundownQuick overview of facts
- decrepitWorn by age
- tumbledownRuined through neglect
crumbling · derelict · abandoned · neglected · weathered · rotting · collapsing · condemned · disrepair · rickety
improvised
Created without prior planning
- cobbled-togetherAssembled from random parts
- thrown-togetherAssembled hastily, without care
- jury-riggedTemporarily fixed with scraps
patchwork · crude · rough-hewn · corrugated · tarpaulin · plywood · cardboard · salvaged · repurposed · hand-built
slum
Impoverished urban district
- shantytownPoor area of crude shelters
- favelaBrazilian informal settlement
- squatterUnauthorized building inhabitant
township · overcrowded · squalid · impoverished · destitute · subsistence · underprivileged · marginalized
cabin
Simple wooden dwelling
pioneer · pastoral · countryside · backcountry · trapper · hillbilly · Appalachian · outback · bush · off-grid
refuge
Place of safety
safehouse · cover · haven · bunker · emergency · survival · temporary · overnight · camping · wayside
snack-bar
Casual food counter
- slumsslum, slums, shanty, shanties, hovel
- dwellingshouse, home, apartment, cabin, cottage
- hellholeshellhole, dungeons, dungeon, dump, dumps
- rural declinedepopulation, rural exodus, brain drain, outmigration, dying towns
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- shack upLive together romantically, unwed
- shacked upLiving together unmarried
- sugar shackMaple syrup production building
- shacking upLiving together unmarried
- love shackIntimate retreat spot
- fishing shackSmall waterside angling shelter