shacktown
nounEtymology From shack + town.
1
A settlement made up of shacks; a shanty town.
- Consequently, it is not surprising that in the years from 1935 to 1938 when the dust-bowl influx was at its peak that hudreds of dustbowl refugees moved into these so-called shacktowns, or squatter camps.1940, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor, Violations of free speech and rights of labor, page 21892: