Sic (after awhile) In southern appalachia, it can mean anywhere between two hours and two days.
(It’s 7:00pm, spoken over the phone) “Tell her to shut the hell up, I’ll be there atter ‘while!”. Shows up at 10 or 11 the next day, either hungover or comin’ down (maybe with a boner).
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.