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Plural of shack

regular plural

The plural of shack is shacks.

Forms of shack

Singularshack /ʃæk/
Pluralshacks
Countablecountable

Shacks in a sentence

  • The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.1944 January and February, E. R. McCarter, “The Cairn Valley Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 48
  • On almost every corner there were shebeens, illegal saloons that were shacks where home-brewed beer was served.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 88. From the entry shebeen
  • Smoking shacks yellow with coal-oil light and areek with the sweetmold smell of splo whiskey.1993, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 1, in The Orchard Keeper, Vintage Books, page 29. From the entry splo
  • Machine-gun-toting soldiers eyed us suspiciously from barricades and peely-paint-covered guard shacks.1991, Roy M. Wallack, The Traveling Cyclist: 20 Five-Star Cycling Vacations, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry peely
  • A crowd of underbusy men waited among the shacks near Hickok's.1979, Jake Logan, Dead Man's Hand, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry underbusy

Meaning of shack

  1. noun A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
  2. noun Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
  3. noun The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.

Full definition of shack

Questions about the plural of shack

What is the plural of shack?
The plural of shack is shacks.
Is shack countable?
Shack is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shack (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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