shantytown

Definition

  • noun: a town or a part of a town where the people are poor and live in shanties
  • noun: a usually poor town or section of a town consisting mostly of 'shanties'
  • synonyms: hooverville, slum

Movie quotes

  • (..) I've seen you drunker! And you've seen me.... He can lie in the gutter for all I care! I'm not a policeman. But he led a raid tonight on that shantytown... ...where Mrs. Kennedy got into trouble this afternoon. A lot of those shanties were burned. A couple of men were killed. (..)
    1939 Gone with the Wind
  • (..) is dying of love for you. Let me by! Don't be angry, Scarlett. Tell me, where are you going? To the mill, if it's any of your business. Through shantytown, alone? Haven't you been told it's dangerous to drive alone through all that riffraff? Don't worry about me. I can shoot straight (..)
    1939 Gone with the Wind