Shanty

Shanty may refer to:

  • Ice shanty, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake
  • Sea shanty, a type of shipboard work-song
  • Shanty, an irregular, low-cost dwelling which, in quantity, form a Shanty town
  • Shanty Hogan (1906-1967), Major League Baseball catcher

Famous quotes containing the word shanty:

    “You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”
    —O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)