A dicey surgical procedure, by which one's compromised prefrontal lobe is removed and replaced with one of grandma's famous meatballs slathered in the secret sauce. If a wizened matriarch isn't around to provide such a meatball, an Olive Garden meatball can suffice, since they are also known to have minds of their own.
Did you hear about Vinny Alfredo? He almost got whacked... a bullet junked up a part of his brain. The doc had to do an emergency meatballobotomy. Unfortunately, Grandma's got COVID so we had to order up a meatball from Olive Garden. Luckily they still had some of her secret sauce left over in the back of the fridge. They said it looked like it had a little bit of mold on it so we're just praying the thing sets without him getting fungal meningitis.
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.
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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.