English Explanatory Dictionary

whole shebang

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Everything; the entire thing.

Pronunciation

En-au-whole shebang.ogg

Word forms

whole shebang whole shebangs whole chebang whole shabang

Etymology

Fixed expression from shebang, first attested in the United States from the early 1860s, from which time it has increasingly dominated the uses of "shebang" itself.

Synonyms

all the marbles bag and baggage everytang everything but the galley stove everything but the kitchen sink everything under the sun full monty hook line and sinker kit and caboodle lock stock and barrel the whole bang shoot the whole nine yards the works whole ball of wax whole hog whole enchilada whole kit and caboodle whole package whole shebang whole shitting match whole shooting match whole smash
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