When a emotionally immature rural person destroys his or her own domicile as a means to express just how angry they are.
Bill:Your honor, my old lady done pi$$ed me off so much that I put my fist through the drywall before I shot out the flat screen TV we got down at the Walmart on a payment plan.
Judge:Well Bill, this redneck remodeling of your's is going to cost you 30 days in jail.
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.