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What (who) is shebang - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Shebang (disambiguation)
shebang
The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing. (INFORMAL)
PHRASE
Shebang
·noun A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.
shebang
[??'ba?]
¦ noun
1. informal a matter, operation, or set of circumstances: the whole shebang.
2. N. Amer. archaic a rough hut or shelter.
Origin
C19: of unknown origin.
Examples of use of shebang
1. Now, the whole Berlinale shebang takes places in the soulless Potsdamer Platz.
2. Delegates can stay in a fortified zone and the whole shebang can go online.
3. The latest fad is to stage the whole shebang on pontoons, putting family and friends on a veritable flotilla of flaunted wealth.
4. Finally, late at night, when the exhausted ministers just want to go home, the cabinet approves the whole shebang in the blink of an eye.
5. But the truth is that the banks will be leaving these reforms with vast profits that will make a joke of the whole shebang.