shanty

1. (US, derogatory) Living in shanties; poor, ill-mannered and violent.Examples: "That neighborhood is full of shanty Irishmen."; "The Irish of the middle class were trying to live down the opprobrium derived from the brawling, hard-drinking, and raffish manners of the “shanty Irish” of an earlier generation. The shanty Irish might in some instances have been the individual′s own grandmother who did, indeed, smoke a clay pipe and keep a goat in what, forty years later, became Central Park. Or shanty Irish might be those fellow Irish who at the turn of the century still lived in slums and were poor, hard-drinking, and contentious."USderogatorynot-comparable