1. a cluster of makeshift dwellings occupied by exceptionally poor people or vagrants

2. any dilapidated place
What's with the shantytown?
by The Return of Light Joker October 12, 2007
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A general term used to express the rubbishness or shantiness of something.
Girl: I can't play badminton tomorrow, I've too much work.
Boy: Shantytown!

Boy: Shantytown! I've forgotten my train pass!

Girl: Aw shantytown, the train's late AGAIN.
by mkk December 25, 2005
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