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whole shebang

noun

Etymology

Fixed expression from shebang, first attested in the United States from the early 1860s, from which time it has increasingly dominated the uses of "shebang" itself.

Definitions

  1. Everything

    Everything; the entire thing.

    • The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks, performers, and the whole shebang.
    • On the third the whole "chebang" was removed [...]
    • I am growing more and more sick of factions, gossip, jealousies, recriminations, excoriations and the whole literary shee-bang.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whole shebang. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA