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Enchilada, as it were
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shebang
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Word definitions for shebang in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shebang \She*bang"\, n. [Cf. Shebeen .] A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.
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.