(especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair (尤指房屋、车辆)严重失修的;摇摇欲坠的,东歪西倒的 a ramshackle cottage. 摇摇欲坠的村舍。
语源
early 19th cent. (originally dialect in the sense 'irregular, disorderly'): alteration of earlier ramshackled, altered form of obsolete ransackled 'ransacked'