shant

See also: shan't and sha'n't

English

Noun

shant (plural shants)

1. (UK, slang) A drink, usually a pint.
   • 2013, Richard James Bentley, Greenbeard, →ISBN:

     If yez is smart yer will take out enough for a shant and some fun, enough to buy yer missus or yer tart a new dress, enough to put shoes on yer sister's weans, even, but leave the rest under yer feet for the next day, an' the day arter that.

   • 2015, Michael Moorcock -, The Whispering Swarm, →ISBN:

     Welcoming Captain St Claire, Prince Rupert ordered him a shant of dark porter and called upon him to speak of his travels.

   • 2016, Christopher James, Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants, →ISBN:

     Well, if you're willing to sub me a shant of bivvy, then I'll tell ya

2. (UK) A shack or shanty.
   • 1889, David Hill, Out of His Sphere: A Drama in Three Acts, page 33:

     Why, I wouldn't swap this old wrack of a shant , ez I've called it, with the treasures it contains to-day, for al the bloomin'est bloomed mansions that ever stood on the face of the earth.

   • 2009, Alan Burt Akers, The Havilfar Cycle II, →ISBN, page 148:

     I clapped Ehren on the shoulder and went away to stare broodingly upon that cramph of a shant.

   • 2014, Alexander Cordell, Tunnel Tigers, →ISBN:

     I'd rather deliver in the Glossop Grubber than that apology for a shant.

Anagrams

• Hants, NHTSA, Thans, ha'nts, hants, hasn't, snath