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shanty ['ʃænti]

n. 棚屋

shanty

[ noun ]

small crude shelter used as a dwelling

<noun.artifact>

a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors

<noun.communication>

Shanty \Shan"ty\, a.
Jaunty; showy. [Prov. Eng.]

Shanty \Shan"ty\, n.;pl. {Shanties}. [Said to be fr. Ir. sean
old + tig. a house.]
A small, mean dwelling; a rough, slight building for
temporary use; a hut.

Shanty \Shan"ty\, v. i.
To inhabit a shanty. --S. H. Hammond.

A black shanty town was demolished.
The teens were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from two portable propane heaters and a propane hot plate left running in the shanty, said Detective Leo Jadowski of the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department.
I just don't like this," said another woman in Los Libertadores, another shanty neighborhood.
The shanty town, a half mile from the ruins of the colonial city sacked and burned by pirate Henry Morgan in 1671, has swollen rapidly since 60 families "invaded" the privately-owned land before dawn on March 25.
Several remain, including the tarpaper-covered shanty Whitfield lives in and Mable Kinchloe's house across the ditch.
The landslide occurred Friday in the Guadalupe district of suburban Makati, where earth and rock loosened by heavy rain cascaded onto a shanty at the foot of a hill, according to Crispina Abat of the Office of Civil Defense.
Still, Manila is one of Southeast Asia's dirtiest capitals, with thousands of squatters living in makeshift shanty communities that dump waste into canals and streams flowing into the Pasig River.
The official sources said most of the destroyed or damaged buildings were shanty houses.
Police arrested eight people in Manila's Marikina district after authorities found explosives in their shanty.
In Pangasinan, west of La Union, two people were electrocuted. In the Manila suburb of Pasig, three children died when a concrete wall collapsed on their shanty, officials said.
'The inhabitants of the biggest shanty town in Latin America were also seduced by the new money.'
Many of these ended up swelling the favela shanty towns dotted around the city. Orientation is a problem, both for newcomers and Paulistanos, as the city's inhabitants are known.

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