shebang

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noun

Plural noun:

shebangschebangschebangsheebang

1.
(US, dated, informal)A lean-to or temporary shelter.
2.
(US, dated, informal)A place or building; a store, saloon, or brothel.
Đồng nghĩa: jawn, joint
3.
(informal)Any matter of present concern; thing; or business; most commonly in the phrase the whole shebang.
I like the book, I like you and your style and your business vim, and believe the chebang will be a success.
Đồng nghĩa: jawn, jimbang
4.
(informal, obsolete)A vehicle.
[…] So they got into the empty omnibus and sat down. Colonel Jack says: “...What is the name of this.” Colonel Jim told him it was a barouche. After a while he poked his head out in front and said to the driver, “I say, Johnny, this suits me. We want this shebang all day. Let the horses go.”
5.
(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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Đồng nghĩa

jawn jointjimbangjawn#Etymology_2hashbang

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whole shebang

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. 1854 in Pennsylvania as "chebang" in the sense of an Oddfellows lodge. Attested from the early 1860s with the meaning "inn" and (slightly later) “temporary shelter”. The earliest attestions (1854-1859) are spelled "chebang" and abstractly seem to indicate an "affair," "matter of concern," or "happening," in keeping with the modern sense, and seem to be from Midwestern sources;