Derived from the word " panhandler, it describes a person who will happily beg, cajole or stealmoney from his or her own grandmother.
She asked her grandmother to pay for her grocery shopping by telling her, her grandchildren were hunrgy when she really wanted the money to get her nails done. Her unsuspecting grandmother was unaware she was falling victim to a Granhandler.
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.