(v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
(v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
(n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
(n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
(n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
(2) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
(3) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
(4) OK, so it wouldn't beat London's MeatLiquor in a fight, but it'd certainly knock seven shades out of Shake Shack and Five Guys with both hands tied behind its back.
(5) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(6) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
(7) Back then, as is now the case, Germany was governed by a “grand coalition”: the two biggest parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, had shacked up.
(8) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
(9) Dozens more were injured, robbed and driven from their shacks at Bitter Creek.
(10) An old worker, laid off on the eve of retirement, reluctantly opens a love shack for illicit couples.
(11) He had a seaside shack with one bedroom containing a solid silver four-poster bed.
(12) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(13) Momepele currently lives in a shack in the eNsimbini settlement in Chesterville, near Durban.
(14) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
(15) We walked past field after field of strawberries, and clusters of wooden shacks.
(16) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
(17) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
(18) Three Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (PLCs) were used to capture and transfer the charting by phone into the hospital information system (HIS).
(19) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
(20) Their children and grandchildren still live in these shacks, held together with salvaged tin and timber.
Whack
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
(v. i.) To strike anything with a smart blow.
(n.) A smart resounding blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, a huge whack of his income comes from Rupert Murdoch.
(2) The cold, hard political calculation is that it makes more sense for the coalition to hit the poorest and weakest – by making swingeing cuts to welfare – than to whack the middle class or the powerful.
(3) If you are on the back end you are kind of playing whack-a-mole, trying to pick this up,” one source said.
(4) Consequently, after Hartson fed Jason Koumas on the right in the first minute and the ball was cleared to Savage on the edge of the Russian box, Savage whacked at the bouncing ball excitedly.
(5) There is a difference between grabbing a bedside lamp and whacking an intruder because you are worried about the children and hitting someone and then stabbing them 17 times," one source said.
(6) "The NSA has a slogan internally — 'we track 'em, you whack 'em' – where they help to target drone strikes."
(7) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(8) It was the happiest Luke Shaw had ever been to take a whack from one of his team-mates.
(9) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
(10) Compare that with a sale price (including downloads) of $630 and Apple makes $452 on each phone: a whacking gross margin of 72%.
(11) But not past the always reliable Cole, who whacks it out for a corner.
(12) Fletcher had the image within a week, and the first thing he noticed was something that had been speculated to exist – “this whacking great canal coming down from the north”.
(13) The huge signs advertising a collapse in prices are already stacked in department stores’ stockrooms as the final spasm of Christmas Eve top-whack spending is taking place.
(14) He whacks the shields of policemen who earn less in a year than a banker does in a day.
(15) Historically, sadly, we never had a cost-control culture, they were out of whack.” Flybe has signed a five-year deal at City.
(16) Whacking the bankers directly and visibly – ensuring they pay back what they cost the rest of us – might have struck the right populist chord too.
(17) I remember an interview where he says he took great delight in whacking the opposing players whenever he had the chance."
(18) But ultimately, it’s human emissions that have thrown a pretty finely-tuned system out of whack.
(19) Instead, Ignatieff got whacked, and the left-leaning New Democratic party did very well indeed, astonishing even themselves.
(20) 9.11pm BST 67 min: Isco has a whack at the Atlético goal through a thicket of legs from the right-hand side of the D, but drags his effort well wide left.