shotgun house

a house of rooms that are connected without a corridor (often with a single floor)

She lives alone in a shotgun house.

shotgun house by The Return of Light Joker January 14, 2008

shotgun house

A house in the South with only one room, small and simple enough that you could shoot a shotgun in one door and out the other. (Improvement on previous definition)

After Katrina, people who had real homes are building shotgun houses because the insurance companies are screwing them over.

shotgun house by aleks August 8, 2006