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noun

Shebang n.

A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop; a primitive dwelling; a shanty. (Slang, U.S.)

The structure of an object, process, organization, or anything viewed as complicated; used primarily in the phrase the whole shebang; as, it comes with unnecessary frills, but you have to buy the whole shebang. (informal)

(computers) The character sequence #!, which frequently begins shell scripts in a Unix system.

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Etymology of 'Whole shebang'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Whole shebang" Quotes from Famous Books

... to get it through your stubborn heads that the responsibility for this whole shebang is mine ...

— Attrition • Jim Wannamaker

... loyalty, and square-dealing than did the men who robbed them. The winners seemed to be the crooked ones, the unfaithful ones, the wicked ones. And even they had no say in the matter. They played the cards that were given them; and Luck, the monstrous, mad-god thing, the owner of the whole shebang, looked on and grinned. It was he who stacked the universal ...

— Burning Daylight • Jack London

... of the floats swung off the sand. The automobile tipped scandalous. It looked as if we was goin' on our beam-ends. Billings let out an awful yell. Then t'other float bobbed up and the whole shebang, car and all, drifted out ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various

... female dude wouldn't keep her mule movin' and that slowed up the whole shebang. I got tired tellin' her to kick him, so I jest throwed a loop round his neck and hitched 'im to my saddle horn. She ...

— I Married a Ranger • Dama Margaret Smith

... "But," said Thatcher, in some concern, "the box seat was purchased by that other gentleman in Sacramento. He paid extra for it, and his name's on your way-bill!" "That," said Yuba Bill, scornfully, "don't fetch me even ef he'd chartered the whole shebang. Look yar, do you reckon I'm goin' to spile my temper by setting next to a man with a game eye? And such an eye! Gewhillikins! Why, darn my skin, the other day when we war watering at Webster's, he got ...

— The Story of a Mine • Bret Harte