Any type of elixir, pill, medicine, or cure sold as a "miracle cure" or an "easy fix" to some ailment or disease that a person is experiencing. Used as a replacement for things that could and should be fixed by a clean diet and regular exercise (such as obesity). The side effects to this "cure" are often worse than the disease it claims to treat. It is a product pushed on the trusting public in an effort to line the pockets of a drug company; with no regard to the damage it will inflict on unsuspecting people. See also snake oil
"Try Zomplex, it works like magic (just ignore all the side effects and we deny any wrong doing on our part should your condition actually worsen after taking our "medicine" )."
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.