- a shack or hut
- Informal an affair, business, contrivance, thing, etc.chiefly in the whole shebang
Origin of shebang
probably variant, variety of shebeen
Claudette paid for the whole shebang because she was celebrating her recent job promotion with her friends.
Shebang is slang for a situation, or a set of facts or things.
An example of shebang is someone paying for the entire check for a large group dinner; paying for the whole shebang.
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noun
SlangA situation, organization, contrivance, or set of facts or things: organized and ran the whole shebang.
Origin of shebang
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Noun
(uncountable)
Origin
First seen in 1862 meaning a “temporary shelter". For instance in the US Civil War (1860-65), the small self-constructed shelters made by Union soldiers in the Confederate Prisoner-of-War camp at Andersonsville, south of Atlanta, Georgia, were known as "Shebangs".
The usage as “temporary shelter" perhaps from shebeen (“cabin where unlicensed liquor is sold and drunk"), pre-1800, chiefly in Ireland and Scotland, from Irish seibin (“small mug"), diminutive of seibe (“mug, bottle, liquid measure")
Modern sense "the whole shebang", origin unknown but meaning "all of the parts" of what is being referred to. Take our Word]</ref>
Noun
(plural shebangs)
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Sentence Examples
- The beauty of a set is that it's not just the top you're investing in, but the entire shebang.
- I'll bet each of them know something they think the other doesn't so's they want the whole shebang for themselves!