Shanty
Appearance
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Shanty may refer to:
Buildings and developments
[edit]- Ice shanty, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake
- Shack or shanty, improvised housing, a type of primitive dwelling
- Shanty town, a settlement of shacks or shanties
- Logging camp, or shanty, a camp where lumberjacks live
Geography
[edit]- Shanty Bay, in the Oro-Medonte township in south-central Ontario, Canada
- Shanty Hollow Lake, a reservoir located in Warren County and Edmonson County, Kentucky
Music
[edit]- Sea shanty, a type of shipboard work-song
- "Shanty" (Jonathan Edwards song), 1971
Other uses
[edit]- Shanty Hogan (1906–1967), Major League Baseball catcher
- Shanty (singer) (born 1978), Indonesian actress and singer
- Shanty Irish, 19th and 20th century term to categorize poor Irish people, particularly Irish Americans
- Sly-grog shop or shanty, an Australian term for an unlicensed hotel or liquor-store
- Shanty, a character in the video game Them's Fightin' Herds.
See also
[edit]- Shandy, beer mixed with a soft drink
- Shanti (disambiguation)