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noun
A subdivision of an apartment/tenement/flat's rooms into separate living spaces of stacked cages, big enough to fit a bed and hold one's belongings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hong-Kong
Topics: architecture
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From cage + home. From Cantonese 籠屋 /笼屋 (lung4 uk1), from being a home set in a cage.
