shantytown
noun
shan·ty·town
ˈshan-tē-ˌtau̇n 
: a usually poor town or section of a town consisting mostly of shanties
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The city will finally lose that shantytown look of rotting shacks.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2024
Elsewhere in the wasteland, Knight Titus and Squire Maximus are on a Vertibird en route to the shantytown of Filly.
—Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
In 2005, Mugabe targeted the mass of disaffected Zimbabweans living in slums and shantytowns on the fringes of urban centers, strongholds of the MDC.
—Martin Meredith, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
Alessandro Da Fonseca was an amiable guy in his twenties who’d recently emigrated from a shantytown district of Rio de Janeiro.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2024
Elsewhere in the wasteland, Knight Titus and Squire Maximus are on a Vertibird en route to the shantytown of Filly.
—Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
In 2005, Mugabe targeted the mass of disaffected Zimbabweans living in slums and shantytowns on the fringes of urban centers, strongholds of the MDC.
—Martin Meredith, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
Alessandro Da Fonseca was an amiable guy in his twenties who’d recently emigrated from a shantytown district of Rio de Janeiro.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shantytown. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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shantytown
noun
shan·ty·town
-ˌtau̇n
: a usually poor town or section of a town made up mostly of shanties
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