a way of fishing letters out of your own mailbox after you've lost the key. It involves wrapping double sided tape around a chopstick and groping with it inside the mailbox.
Roommate 1: Dude, Jason lost the key again, how do I get my letter out?
Roommate 2: Just use the chopstick method.
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.