Definition of 'focal point'. focal point. The focal point of something is the thing that people concentrate on or pay most attention to. ...the focal point for the town's many visitorsâthe Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Shake Shack. Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK) is an American fast casual restaurant chain based in New York City. It started out as a food cart inside Madison Square Park in 2004, and its popularity steadily grew.
1878, American English and Canadian English, of unknown origin, perhaps from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli wooden hut.. Or perhaps a back-formation from dialectal English shackly shaky, rickety (1843), a derivative of shack, a dialectal variant of shake (v.). Another theory derives shack from ramshackle. Slang meaning house attested by 1910. In early radio enthusiast slang, it was the word for a room or office set aside for wireless use, 1919, perhaps from earlier U.S. Navy use (1917). As a verb, 1891 in the U.S. West in reference to men who hole up for the winter; from 1927 as to put up for the night; phrase shack up cohabit first recorded 1935 (in Zora Neale Hurston).