shotgun shack

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Noun

shotgun shack (plural shotgun shacks)

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of shotgun house.
    • 1980, “Once in a Lifetime”, in Remain in Light, performed by Talking Heads:
      And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack / And you may find yourself in another part of the world
    • 2004 November 8, Duncan Spencer, “HillScape”, in The Hill‎[1], archived from the original on 4 December 2004:
      Although preservationists claim the “Shotgun Shack” is one of only two remaining houses of this type on Capitol Hill, the city has condemned the building and ordered it and another house in the same block to be demolished. […]
    • 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 55:
      He might actually be able to do something with the shotgun shack that Martina had glimpsed in her single lightning visit to Durrongo since she arrived.
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