Shanty

Last updated November 13, 2025

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Shanty may refer to:

Contents

Buildings and developments
Geography
Music
Other uses
See also

Buildings and developments

Ice shanty, a portable shed placed on a frozen lake
Shack or shanty, improvised housing, a type of primitive dwelling
Shanty town, a settlement of shacks or shanties
Logging camp, or shanty, a camp where lumberjacks live

Geography

Shanty Bay, in the Oro-Medonte township in south-central Ontario, Canada
Shanty Hollow Lake, a reservoir located in Warren County and Edmonson County, Kentucky

Music

Sea shanty, a type of shipboard work-song
"Shanty", a 1971 song by Jonathan Edwards from Jonathan Edwards
"Shanty", a 1964 song by the Quests

Other uses

Shanty Hogan (1906–1967), Major League Baseball catcher
Shanty (singer) [ id ] (born 1978), Indonesian actress and singer
Shanty Irish, 19th and 20th century term to categorize poor Irish people, particularly Irish Americans
Sly-grog shop or shanty, an Australian term for an unlicensed hotel or liquor-store
Shanty, a character in the video game Them's Fightin' Herds .

See also

Shandy, beer mixed with a soft drink
Shanti (disambiguation)

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