beach hut

plural beach huts

1. AustraliaUKA small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into swimming clothes, for recreation, or for temporary storage.

   2000, Michael Dregni, 101 Uses for an Old Farm Tractor, Voyageur Press, British Columbia, page 29, Kenneth Anderson's 1940s John Deere Model H could also double as a beach hut or lifeguard stand.

   4 more examples

   Beach huts, owned or leased, are not habitable but can be used as a shelter and changing room on the beach.

   2003, Barbara Segall, Jerry Harpur, Gardens by the Sea, page 123

   Installed in a stark London gallery, Emin's work symbolized the beach hut as icon of the seaside.

   2006, Fred Gray, chapter C, in Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, page 176

   As you travel further south there is a string of mellow beach huts with Buddhist names such as Shanti and Nirvana, catering for small numbers of hip, adventurous young Israelis.

   2010, Amelia Thomas, Michael Kohn, Miriam Raphael, Dan Savery Raz, Israel & the Palestinian Territories, Lonely Planet, page 395

   But you'll have to wait in line in the morning to reserve a beach hut, and one never gets used to the sad sight of parrots, toucans, and cockatoos squawking in their cages.

   2011, Darwin Porter, Frommer's Caribbean, page 77