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    shacky
    /ˈʃaki/

    adjective

    • 1. (of a building) dilapidated or ramshackle: informal North American "little shacky farms"

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  2. The meaning of SHACKY is characterized by the presence or semblance of a shack. How to use shacky in a sentence.

  3. SHACKY definition: run-down ; dilapidated | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

  4. Shacky definition: run-down; dilapidated. See examples of SHACKY used in a sentence.

  5. moving with quick, short movements from side to side, not in a controlled way: Soon after it was born, the calf got up and tried to stand on its shaky legs. The child wrote her name in large shaky letters. She's recovering well from her operation, but she's still a little shaky on her feet. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  6. The earliest known use of the adjective shacky is in the 1920s. OED's earliest evidence for shacky is from 1921, in the writing of Sheila Kaye-Smith, novelist.

  7. SHACKY definition: run-down ; dilapidated | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English

  8. Adjective. [ edit] shacky ( comparative shackier, superlative shackiest) run-down, like a shack. Categories: English terms suffixed with -y. English lemmas. English adjectives. English terms with quotations.