Definition of "shantytown" []

• A town or a section of a town consisting chiefly of shacks. (noun)

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• "For someone like Jakes, everyone from a beleaguered president in the White House to a malnourished Kenyan boy in a shantytown is tugging at his cuffs."
• "Carlos Ezquival Acme Street Artist Museu de Favela is trying to turn the shantytown, which is home to more than 20,000 people, into a popular destination."
• "The size of this "shantytown" should be viewed not as a symbol of USAS's difficulties but as proof that college students remain as ideologically diverse as ever and that most students are not easily swayed by the rhetoric of this latest student-activism fad."