DCHP-1 Online
shantytown † 
n. a community, or section of a town, etc., that is comprised of shacks.
See also: shacktown
- 1900 [It is a] shanty town of rough-hewn logs, warmly mudded-up. . . .
- 1928 He apologized for Dunvegan, assuring me that I must understand that Water Holes was no such tumble-into-the-river shanty-town but a real up-and-coming emporium of commerce.
- 1965 The failures are inscribed on . . . denizens of shanty towns and slums who drifted away from their hunting grounds in search of a more comfortable life. . . .
- 1900 [It is a] shanty town of rough-hewn logs, warmly mudded-up. . . .