shebang
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8.4
- noun
- /ʃəˈbæŋ/
- Informal
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todo el tinglado
- "Well, you're about to do the best part of the whole shebang," he said.
- the whole shebang
- buy the whole shebang
- win the whole shebang
So the whole shebang is now slick.
- So the whole shebang is now slick.
- You can find the blog, the podcast, the videos, the books, the whole shebang.
- This whole meal is all vegan, non processed, the whole shebang which I'm all about.
- So freshly chopped ginger, cardamom, boiled milk, like the whole shebang.
- If I'm kind of shaving my legs and doing whole shebang, then it can take me like half an hour.
- And the question is how difficult is it to reverse engineer the whole shebang?
- It's RF microwaves, the whole shebang.
Examples
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We had snow pants on, winter coats, winter boots, the whole shebang for recess and lunch break and everything.
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Flight, hotel, expenses, the whole shebang.
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But more and more there are places that will do the whole shebang, or at least the production stuff.
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"Some of them are beginning to think I own the whole shebang myself, can you believe it?"
Fiction book (1996) -
Maybe he'll come to you and offer to buy the whole shebang once he has these two pieces.
Fiction book (1993) -
Of course, it's important to remember the whole shebang did not start as an investigation into what Donald Trump did or did not do.
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I'm going to need a new passport, photo ID, driver's license, the whole shebang.
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This whole meal is all vegan, non processed, the whole shebang which I'm all about.
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I had the steak tartare, the egg, the scallions, the capers, the whole shebang.
Fiction book (1997) -
For the wedding, we planned the whole shebang: the ceremony, the reception, and the guest list.
Synonyms
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8.0
Everything that is part of something
All the things in a group or set
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Etymology
Shebang may come from an old spoken form like shabang or from the Irish word shebeen, a kind of illegal bar, and both once named a whole place so people used them for 'the whole thing'. So when you say 'the whole shebang' you mean everything, the entire system or situation.