Shanty may refer to:

Buildings and developments

Ice shanty An ice shanty (also called an ice shack, ice house, fishing shanty, fish house, fish coop, bobhouse, ice hut, or darkhouse; ) is a portable shed placed on a frozen lake to provide shelter during ice fishing. They can be as small and cheap as a ...

, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake *

Shack A shack (or, in some areas, shanty) is a type of small shelter or dwelling, often primitive or rudimentary in design and construction. Unlike huts, shacks are constructed by hand using available materials; however, whereas huts are usually r ...

or shanty, improvised housing, a type of primitive dwelling *

Shanty town A shanty town, squatter area, squatter settlement, or squatter camp is a settlement of improvised buildings known as shanties or shacks, typically made of materials such as mud and wood, or from cheap building materials such as corrugated iron s ...

, a settlement of shacks or shanties *

Logging camp A logging camp (or lumber camp) is a transitory work site used in the logging industry. Before the second half of the 20th century, these camps were the primary place where lumberjacks would live and work to fell trees in a particular area. Many ...

, or shanty, a camp where lumberjacks live

Geography

Shanty Bay Oro-Medonte is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada, on the northwestern shores of Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County. The Oro African Methodist Episcopal Church School was a rural segregated Black school established in 1849 in Oro-Medonte, O ...

, in the Oro-Medonte township in south-central Ontario, Canada *

Shanty Hollow Lake Shanty Hollow Lake is a reservoir mostly in Warren County, Kentucky, but also extending into Edmonson County. It was constructed in 1949, and has opened for fishing in 1951. The lake is located approximately north of Bowling Green and is used ...

, a reservoir located in Warren County and Edmonson County, Kentucky

Music

Sea shanty A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty () is a genre of traditional Folk music, folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large Merchant vessel, merchant Sailing ship, sailing vessels. The term ...

, a type of shipboard work-song * "Shanty", a 1971 song by Jonathan Edwards from ''

Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards may refer to: Musicians *Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, pseudonym of bandleader Paul Weston and his wife, singer Jo Stafford *Jonathan Edwards (musician) (born 1946), American musician **Jonathan Edwards (album), ''Jonathan Edward ...

'' * "Shanty", a 1964 song by

the Quests The Quests was a Singaporean pop band. Founded in 1961 by guitarist Chong Chow Pin, lead guitarist Raymond Leong, bassist Henry Chua, and drummer Lim Wee Guan, they are considered the most successful Singapore band of the 1960s. History Fo ...

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Shanty Hogan James Francis "Shanty" Hogan (March 21, 1906 – April 7, 1967) was an American professional baseball player.Shanty Irish ''Lace curtain Irish'' and ''shanty Irish'' are terms that were commonly used in the 19th and 20th centuries to categorize Irish people, particularly Irish Americans, by social class. The "lace curtain Irish" were those who were well-off, while t ...

, 19th and 20th century term to categorize poor Irish people, particularly Irish Americans *

Sly-grog shop In Australia, a sly-grog shop (or shanty) is an unlicensed hotel, liquor-store or other vendor of alcoholic beverages, sometimes with the added suggestion of selling poor-quality products. From the time of the First World War until as late as t ...

or shanty, an Australian term for an unlicensed hotel or liquor-store * Shanty, a character in the video game ''

Them's Fightin' Herds ''Them's Fightin' Herds'' is an indie fighting game developed by Mane6 and published by Modus Games. It features a cast of ungulate characters fighting each other to find a champion worthy of gaining a magical key that will protect their worl ...

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