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adjective
- 1. (especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair: "a ramshackle cottage"
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RAMSHACKLE definition: 1. badly or untidily made and likely to break or fall down easily: 2. badly organized: 3. badly…. Learn more.
The meaning of RAMSHACKLE is appearing ready to collapse : rickety. How to use ramshackle in a sentence. The Evolution of Ramshackle.
(esp of buildings) badly constructed or maintained; rickety, shaky, or derelict.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
It's ramshackle — in other words, in terrible condition and barely holding together. If you think there's a similarity between a place that's been ransacked and a place that's ramshackle, you'd be right. Ramshackle comes from ransackle, an old 19th century term for "ransack."
In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles. They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach. He entered the ramshackle bus, and was driven a long distance through very sandy streets to the hotel on the St. Lawrence.
Of a person, action, etc.: unsteady, irregular, disorderly. The most ramshackle fellow you ever saw. What ramshackle wark ha' ye been after? Fine talent..ruined..by a disorderly character, a ramshackle career. We are..not scholars enough..to realize how ramshackle a thing his poetry is even to his compatriots.
Definition of ramshackle adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define ramshackle. ramshackle synonyms, ramshackle pronunciation, ramshackle translation, English dictionary definition of ramshackle. adj. So poorly constructed or kept up that disintegration is likely; rickety: a ramshackle cabin in the woods.
(esp of buildings) badly constructed or maintained; rickety, shaky, or derelict.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
RAMSHACKLE definition: A ramshackle building is in very bad condition.. Learn more.
