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shacklike en · ADJ

Etymology

From shack + -like.

Meanings

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 to opposition and human rights figures. 2009 October 1, Adam Nossiter, “In Guinean Hospital, Wounded Attest to Military Attack”, in New York Times:

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