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Shanty may refer to:

Buildings and developments

  • Ice shanty, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake
  • Shack or shanty, improvised housing, a type of primitive dwelling
  • Shanty town, a settlement of shacks or shanties

Geography

  • Shanty Bay, in the Oro-Medonte township in south-central Ontario, Canada
  • Shanty Hollow Lake, a reservoir located in Warren County and Edmonson County, Kentucky

Music

Other uses

  • Shanty Hogan (1906–1967), Major League Baseball catcher
  • Shanty (singer) (born 1978), Indonesian actress and singer
  • Shanty Irish, 19th and 20th century term to categorize poor Irish people, particularly Irish Americans
  • Sly-grog shop or shanty, an Australian term for an unlicensed hotel or liquor-store
  • Shanty, a character in the video game Them's Fightin' Herds.

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