its that thing of when, like, midgets have dreadlocks & they lay face down on the floor.
stefon: have you heard about new york's hottest club, SLASH?
tranny oakley: no, why? is it any good, stefon?
stefon: any good?! they have a party room filled with human bath mats!
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.