sociable Dictionary, social, lively His extrovert personality won him many friends.
1 The township is a sprawling shanty town and squatter camp hidden by the bush. 2  I'd rather get within ten feet of someone who lives in township or a shanty town, because there are a great many of them.3  The so-called port at Siem Reap is actually a huge shanty town where the jetty is literally collapsing into the water.oun. A deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of shanty dwellings. Example sentences. 1  The township is a sprawling shanty town and squatter camp hidden by the bush. 2  I'd rather get within ten feet of someone who lives in township or a shanty town, because there are a great many of them.
In many cases, the lace curtain Irish were as poor as the shanty Irish but they had their own notions that they were more respectable. When there was no frame house per se, some were called lace curtain simply because they would put up lace curtains for appearances' sake, even in a shanty town.