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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shebang
noun
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▪ Naturally Spiritualized crank the whole shebang into life without a word.
▪ Yet given the steamy circumstances, this whole shebang seems oddly passionless.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shebang

Shebang \She*bang"\, n. [Cf. Shebeen.] A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shebang

1862, "hut, shed, shelter," popularized among soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, but like other Civil War slang (such as skedaddle) of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of shebeen (q.v.), but shebang in the sense "tavern," a seemingly necessary transitional sense, is not attested before 1878 and shebeen seems to have been not much used in the U.S. Bartlett's 1877 edition describes it as "A strange word that had its origin during the late civil war. It is applied alike to a room, a shop, or a hut, a tent, a cabin; an engine house." Phrase the whole shebang first recorded 1869, but relation to the earlier use of the word is obscure. Either or both senses also might be mangled pronunciations of French char-à-banc, a bus-like wagon with many seats. For an older guess:\n\n[Shebang] used even yet by students of Yale College and elsewhere to designate their rooms, or a theatrical or other performance in a public hall, has its origin probably in a corruption of the French cabane, a hut, familiar to the troops that came from Louisiana, and constantly used in the Confederate camp for the simple huts, which they built with such alacrity and skill for their winter quarters. The constant intercourse between the outposts soon made the term familiar to the Federal army also.

["Americanisms: The English of the New World," Maximillian Schele De Vere, New York, Charles Scribner & Co., 1872.]

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Wiktionary
shebang

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context archaic English) A lean-to or temporary shelter. 2 Any matter of present concern; thing; or business. 3 (context obsolete English) A vehicle.''Take our Word'' n. 1 (context archaic English) A lean-to or temporary shelter. 2 Any matter of present concern; thing; or business. 3 (context obsolete English) A vehicle.''Take our Word'' Etymology 2

n. (context computing English) The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.

WordNet
shebang

n. an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'

Wikipedia
Shebang (Unix)

In computing, a shebang is the character sequence consisting of the characters number sign and exclamation mark at the beginning of a script. It is also called sha-bang, hashbang, pound-bang,hash-pling, or Crunchbang

Under Unix-like operating systems, when a script with a shebang is run as a program, the program loader parses the rest of the script's initial line as an interpreter directive; the specified interpreter program is run instead, passing to it as an argument the path that was initially used when attempting to run the script. For example, if a script is named with the path path/to/script, and it starts with the following line:

#!/bin/sh

then the program loader is instructed to run the program /bin/sh instead, passing path/to/script as the first argument.

The shebang line is usually ignored by the interpreter because the "#" character is a comment marker in many scripting languages; some language interpreters that do not use the hash mark to begin comments (such as Scheme) still may ignore the shebang line in recognition of its purpose. Other solutions rely on a preprocessor, which evaluates and removes the shebang line, before the remainder of the script is forwarded to a compiler or interpreter. For example, this is the case with InstantFPC—a command that allows to run programs written in Free Pascal as scripts under several operating systems.

Shebang

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Usage examples of "shebang".

So the few lines that has gone from this shebang has been writ by yours truly.

It really is a finer shebang in many ways than the house we all lived in till this happened.

To play it safe, we completely sterilized the whole shebang, the abdominal cavity and her entire digestive system from the duodenum south.

I lay down level to where the aperture would be, and found I could see the whole shebang all three floors, the garage, the side door from the garage and the lake.

And Proxima may decide to orbit the whole shebang instead of just the Twinsthough it will probably take a few hundred years to settle down.

George had to go right through the whole shebang all over again, putting it right.

The only question is, are these the leaders of the whole shebang, or will we have to go hunting further?

When the Washington believers started cracking down on them, the porno people found a zoning loophole and moved the whole shebang to the San Sebastiano Valley, Little Hollywood, Southern California.

The whole shebang: Libertarians, Nihilists, Wobblies, the Anti-Racist Leagueeverybody but those Eurocommunist slobs.

All of this, this whole shebang here, is the Meadows Center, located just about six miles east of the Interstate.

It is omnipotent, Joshua, it runs the whole shebang, there is no need for a court, for civil servants, it enforces the constitution with perfect impartiality.

But it seems to me that about the time Odysseus disappeared, rather, X vanished, that the whole project of the Ethicals went shebang.

If they injected him with the truth serum, he'd probably spill the beans about the Family and the Home and the whole shebang.

But when they're all workin' together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang- that's right, that's holy.

I'll deposit, say, a hundred in cash for the whole shebang, and that's only on account I doubt I'll have to forfeit any of it.