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shacklike

shacklike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a shack.

Adjective

shacklike (comparative more shacklike, superlative most shacklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a shack.
    • In the city’s poor neighborhoods, survivors stood in knots in front of shuttered shacklike stores, vowing revenge and rehearsing in painful detail the attack on Monday that appears to have killed as many as 157 people protesting against the government at the September 28th Stadium here, according...2009 October 1, Adam Nossiter, “In Guinean Hospital, Wounded Attest to Military Attack”, in New York Times

Forms of shacklike

comparativemore shacklike
superlativemost shacklike

Origin of shacklike

From shack + -like.

Questions about shacklike

What does shacklike mean?
Shacklike means resembling or characteristic of a shack.
What part of speech is shacklike?
Shacklike is an adjective.

Words near shacklike in the dictionary

  1. Shackletons
  2. Shacklett
  3. Shackletts
  4. Shackley
  5. Shackleys
  6. shacklike
  7. shackling
  8. shacklock
  9. shacklocks
  10. shackly
  11. shacko

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