WordNet
n. everything available; usually preceded by `the'; "we saw the whole shebang"; "a hotdog with the works"; "we took on the whole caboodle"; "for $10 you get the full treatment" [syn: whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle, whole kit, whole caboodle, works, full treatment]
Usage examples of "whole works".
He was the last man in the whole Works who deserved an invitation.
Assuming, that is, they don't have a beam deflector, in which case we'd get the whole works right back in our faces.
You know what happens when water gets on carbide--there's an explosion, and there's enough carbide in that shed to send the whole works sky high.
We'd have to take down the cofferdam, re-flood the whole works, disassemble Orthanc and Island One you can't be serious.