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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 'Shebang'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shebang" Quotes from Famous Books

... blasted wire if some one in the shebang don't tend to this door better," he growled to a lady with a mug of beer, who just then emerged from the lower regions. "Me a-trying to get the lines of that new afterpiece in my head—chock-full of business, too!—and that bell clanging ...

— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan

... maliciously imitating the other's enunciation. "I'm going to shape all the courses of this shebang, and you observe; and if you do anything more, I'll bore you as sure ...

— The God of His Fathers • Jack London

... declared his intention to go to the tan-yard and clean out the old shebang, following his threat with a movement towards the tannery ...

— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field

... no sense in you trying to make out alone. Next thing you'll die on me, and then I'll have the whole shebang on my hands." At that he eyed her dumbly from his chair by the stove. His resistance was wearing down. He knew it. He wasn't dying. He knew that, too. But something in him was. Something that had resisted her all these years. Something that had made him ...

— Half Portions • Edna Ferber

... out of that there chair there in the corner, an' three more drunks they finds under the pianny. I tell you-alls the whole camp hits up the Yukon for Dawson jes' like Sam Scratch was after them,—wimmen, children, babes in arms, the whole shebang. Bidwell comes to me an' sez, sez he, 'Jim, I wants you to keep tab on the Monte ...

— The Faith of Men • Jack London

... Mother Kyley, an' work yer own ould shebang,' replied Aurora, 'or else bring me fiddle wid ye, an' give us a ...

— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson

... if you'll let me, but I'll be doggoned if I'll marry a stepmother for Phoebe, not for the whole shebang!" ...

— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon

... sense enough to clamp my mittens onto the little brass rail by the stern and hold on; then she jibed the second time. She stood up on two legs, the boom come over with a slat that pretty nigh took the mast with it, and the whole shebang whirled around as if it had forgot something. I have a foggy kind of remembrance of locking my mitten clamps fast onto that rail while the rest of me streamed out in the air like a burgee. Next thing I knew we was scooting back towards Dillaway's, with the sail catching ...

— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln

Words linked to "Shebang" : system, scheme