see Scarlem - nickname for Scarborough, east-end Toronto. Once a white working class burb of modest 50s homes that produced a disproportionate amount of comedians such as Mike Myers, whose `Wayne's World' is set in a Chicago that is really supposed to be the Scarborough of his youth. Went seriously downhill from the 80s on and has many pockets of ghetto activity and Jamaican gangs.
"The most awesome roti in the T-Dot is at Don-a-You's Juices and Jerk on Morningside in Scompton. True dat."
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.