Shant

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A drink, usually a pint. Ireland, UK, slang

    "If yez is smart yer will take out enough for a shant and some fun, enough to buy yer missus or yer tart a new dress, enough to put shoes on yer sister's weans, even, but leave the rest under yer feet for the next day, an' the day arter that."

  2. 2
    A shack or shanty. Ireland, UK

    "Why, I wouldn't swap this old wrack of a shant , ez I've called it, with the treasures it contains to-day, for al the bloomin'est bloomed mansions that ever stood on the face of the earth."

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