An act of retaliation whereby a garden hose is placed under an neighbouring occupants front door and turned on. The term is believed to have originated in the Sydney suburb of Tempe.
“If they don’t stop that music I’ll give them a cunthosing they won’t forget!”
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 $2million.