shack
n.— «Twenty-two seconds after dropping his bomb, Schmidt gave the universal striker-pilot signal for a direct hit: “Shack.”» —“A Soldier’s Story: Part Two” by Ron Corbett Ottawa Citizen (Can.) Nov. 24, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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