The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SHANTY
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More clues leading to the result SHANTY
- Aim to preserve a set of books in cabin
- Retiring to devour a collection of books in shed
- Sheepish about insect song
- . Increase in temperature in inadequate rough hut
- Modest accommodation for worker
- Nervous about insect in hut
- Youth leader will not precede worker in experiment
- Soldier, coy on the outside, delivers a song
- Insect infesting secluded hut
- Song social worker gets embarrassed about
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What does SHANTY mean?
SHANTY noun- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
- An unlicensed pub.
- To inhabit a shanty.
- Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.
- A song a sailor sings, especially in rhythm to his work.
- Jaunty; showy.