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   shack

   /ʃak/

   noun

   • 1. a roughly built hut or cabin.

   verb

   • 1. move in or live with someone as a lover: informal "they won't believe I've shacked up with someone so good-looking"

   Word Origin late 19th century: perhaps from Mexican jacal, Nahuatl xacatli ‘wooden hut’. The early sense of the verb was ‘live in a shack’ (originally a US usage).

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • S

     1

   • H

     4

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • K

     5

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