shanty(HOUSE)
We spent the night in a flimsy wooden hut.我们在一个不太坚固的小木屋里过了一夜。
Modern houses have replaced the one-room mud huts with grass roofs that had been home to generations of peasants.新式住房取代了农民世代居住的单间草顶土屋。

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Houses & homes
A-frame
ADU
affordable housing
almshouse
apartment
dormitory
dosshouse
dower house
duplex
efficiency
Nissen hut
non-housing
old people's home
palace
palazzo
town house
townhouse
tract house
trap house
two-up two-down
hut
exclamation
USuk /hʌt/ us /hʌt/
used in American football as a signal to start playing:
It could be that "hike" evolved into "hut" because of football's love of military terminology.
On "hut", the wide receiver broke for the end zone to receive the pass.
Hut is a signal to the other players to start play.
Hut is a simple one-syllable word that is easy to say and hear.

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aiyo
attaboy
attagirl
auf Wiedersehen
aw shucks
doctor
eat your heart outidiom
figure
guess
marry
mazel tov
more
more power to your elbow!idiom
need
roll
yoink
you know something?idiom
you should have seen/heard something/someoneidiom
you the man!idiom
yuk

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American football

hut | American Dictionary

hut
noun[ C ]
us/hʌt/
a small, simple house or shelter:
a thatched hut

Examples of hut

hut
The person's house is then burnt down and the site prepared for a much later ceremony by building cooking huts there.
Their aim was to check the coastline and huts along it to discover if local hunters haed news of the expedition.
This is an entrance gate watchman's shelter hut at the commencement of an avenue of trees, with shrubberies on three sides of it.
The pebbles cemented in guano, are in a swale about 10 m east of the 1911 hut porch.
These materials continue to be fragmented and abraded as visitors to the site walk around the hut.
Some squatters provided wheat rather than flour, and the hut-keeper ground the grain using a small mill.
Access to this area should also be restricted to avoid the fragile defibrated wood being disturbed and possibly dispersed within the hut.
Obtaining dental wax cast from north wall boards 'stores hut'.
A total of 20 intact mosquito nets were tested, using alternatively two replicate treated nets per hut to compensate for variability between individual net treatments.
From any location in the settlement, no more than a handful of huts were visible.
Each hut was surrounded by a water-filled moat to exclude ants and spiders.
This country retreat included a rather primitive hut surrounded by acres of property owned by the family.
To the southeastern side of the ellipsoidal foundation, four or five smaller huts once stood around a possible domestic space.
When someone builds a hut others assist him today and tomorrow the order will be reversed.
Living conditions in huts were primitive, and the diet monotonous.
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