the result of the sides of an airplane's emergency inflatable life raft flipping up and trapping its victims when too many peoplecrowd the center
after the plane crashed into the water, the passengers clamored into the emergency life rafts hoping for safety, but as more of them huddled together in the center of the raft, a death taco engulfed them as they sunk to their watery demise.
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.