To be injured for a period of more than a few months, despite ironically starting to look like a class act. Generally applied to footballers.
"Did you see Jack Wilshere play for Arsenal in the pre-season friendlies?" "Didn't you hear? He's been Robin Van Persie'd. We won't see him again for six months."
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.