a common phrase used in Mr Will's history classes, referring to your average Joe or someone he may have ran into while at the submarine races or drinking his root beer. he's a bodiless entity, one that can be used to fill in the hole that people constantly come across when "point making" within the classrooms at Tiverton High School.
"I don't give a damn if the president or effing ...Joe Bag'o'Donuts comes here"
"These Cuban cigar stores, they just don't care who walks in as long as you got the money, it can be someone as old as me, someone as young as you or Joe Bag 'O' Donuts!"
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.