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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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"Shebang" Quotes from Famous Books

... with Tom when he wanted to draw the cash on a cotton check. Talk about hard work—I'll swear I couldn't see it. Me 'n' Tom had been up fully three hours knockin' about the streets tryin' to kill the best part o' the day before that shebang opened up for business, an' then somebody said they shet up at three o'clock an' went home to take a nap or whiz about in their automobiles. The whole thing's bothered me a sight, for I do like to understand things. How could a checker-playin' ...

— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... gets outside, he finds he can't crawl onder the teepee none, seein' it's settin' too clost to the ground; an' tharupon, bein' a one-ideed b'ar, he sort o' runs his right arm in beneath that edifice an' up-ends the entire shebang, same as his old mother would a log when she's grub-huntin' in the hills. Bowlaigs is pickin' up the dollar when the Major comes swarmin' 'round the ruins of his outfit, a bowie in his hand, an' him fairly locoed ...

— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis

... living, as the case might demand. And the ramifications of their kinship were amazing. No wonder the report that "an aunt-in-law ob de yo'ng mistress yonder at Severndale, had done come down an' ondertuck fer ter run de hull shebang an' Miss Peggy inter de bargain, what is never been run by nobody," had circulated throughout the whole community, and met with a resolute, though carefully concealed opposition—subtle, intangible, but sure to prove ...

— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson

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

— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field

... it, while I can. I shan't have the chance very long, if the other folks in this town are like that hack driver. A dollar to drive half a mile in that hearse! Why, the whole shebang wa'n't worth more than two dollars, to buy. And then he had the cheek to ask me to give him 'a quarter ...

— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln

... You-alls means proper an friendly. But I warns the world at this time that I now embarks on the spree of my life. I'm goin to get drunk an' never hedge a bet; an my last requests, the same bein' addressed to the barkeep, personal, is to set every bottle of bug- juice in the shebang on the bar, thar to repose within the reach of all ...

— Wolfville • Alfred Henry Lewis

... Dolan, who was foreman, and all the other punchers?" asked Snake. "Takes more'n a foreman, which you say you are now, to run a shebang like ...

— The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley - or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery • Willard F. Baker

Words linked to "Shebang" : system, whole shebang, scheme