the oftimes endless and sometimes gruesome promenade of persons that "hit" or view, inquire, hint, wink, flirt, send emails, etc, when one signs onto a singles venue, column, or website.
"I signed up on a singles website the other day, and you should have seen the 'hit parade' that followed.
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.