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shotgun houses

shotgun houses is the plural of shotgun house.

Meaning of shotgun house

Noun

shotgun house (plural shotgun houses)

  1. A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
    • Dr. King’s words filled the front room of the shotgun house.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 25

Questions about shotgun houses

What is shotgun houses the plural of?
Shotgun houses is the plural of shotgun house.

Words near shotgun houses in the dictionary

  1. shotgun doubles
  2. shotgun fungi
  3. shotgun fungus
  4. shotgun home
  5. shotgun house
  6. shotgun houses
  7. shotgun marriage
  8. shotgun marriages
  9. shotgun mic
  10. shotgun microphone
  11. shotgun microphones

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