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Ramshackle

Ramshackle Meaning & Definition
Ramshackle Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ramshackle?

[adj] in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ramshackle: bedraggled | broken-down | damaged | dilapidated | tatterdemalion | tumble-down | unsound

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Ramshackle In Webster's Dictionary

\Ram"shac*kle\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. --Thackeray.
\Ram"shac*kle\, v. t. To search or ransack; to rummage. [Prov. Eng.]

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