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Vinony

shantytown

noun

  1. a settlement of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From shanty + town.

  1. An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.

    “The forest gave way to shantytowns that stitched themselves into waves of blue-tented internally displaced camps and then stone dwellings hundreds of years old.”