shebang
IPA: ʃˈibʌŋ
noun
- (informal, US, archaic) A lean-to or temporary shelter.
- (informal, US, archaic) A place or building; a store, saloon, or brothel.
- (informal) Any matter of present concern; thing; or business; most commonly in the phrase "the whole shebang".
- (informal, obsolete) A vehicle.
- (computing) 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.
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Examples of "shebang" in Sentences
- This is the who shebang in short.
- Its right there, the whole shebang.
- In practice, he leads the whole shebang.
- I really don't want to read the whole shebang.
- I thought this whole shebang was dead and buried.
- He's requesting a user name change and the whole shebang.
- She then became vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The hole Shebang.
- Perhaps the whole shebang is the caverns, and the scenic parts are grottoes
- Again, in my world, a higher chance of winning the whole shebang is what equals “better”.
- And the whole shebang is controlled by a special secret control room housed in a giant statue!
- The whole shebang is directed by Tim Russ (Tuvok from Voyager), who also recreates his role in the film as well.
- I've come to accept that the delegates are props, the platforms are propaganda and the whole shebang is essentially a political infomercial that just goes on and on and on.
- Instead of working all flowers and candy, however, the whole shebang is lost with over 4000 pointless US dead and hundreds of thousands pointlessly dead Iraqis and Afghanis.
- Overseeing the whole shebang is Big Chief Random Chaos, possibly not the most suitable candidate for a position requiring organisational skills, but the in-house hosts will be on hand to mop up any spillages.
- But, on the subject of Kate Thornton, does anyone else get the feeling that this whole 'Kate Sacked From X Factor' shebang is just a lazy publicity-grabber, the same as all the judge-fights were on the last couple of X Factor seasons?
- So I won't dismiss Palahniuk's new book -- a "novel" consisting of 23 "short stories" linked by "poems," a thin "narrative," and the conceit that this whole shebang is the work of the flesh - and fame-starved prisoners at a ghoulish writers 'colony -- as mere crap.