motel vs shanty

motel

noun
  • A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms the entrances of which are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to automobiles parked there. 

  • A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel. 

verb
  • To stay in a motel or motels. 

shanty

noun
  • A roughly-built hut or cabin. 

  • A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned. 

  • An unlicensed pub. 

  • A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work. 

adj
  • Jaunty; showy. 

  • Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent. 

verb
  • To inhabit a shanty. 

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