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Shantytown

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Noun
  1. 1
    An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

    "The forest gave way to shantytowns that stitched themselves into waves of blue-tented internally displaced camps and then stone dwellings hundreds of years old."

  2. 2
    a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties wordnet

Etymology

From shanty + town.

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