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单词 shebang
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shebangn.

/ʃɪˈbaŋ/
Forms: Also †chebang, shee-bang.
Etymology: Of obscure origin.
North American slang.
1.
a. A hut, shed; one's dwelling, quarters.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place
nestOE
inningOE
hostela1325
lodgingsc1380
lodging-place14..
entry1457
logis1477
hospital?a1513
stay1566
lodge1571
allodgement1598
lodgementa1701
gite1798
put-up1844
hang-out1852
shebang1867
stash1927
pad1935
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]
hulka1000
boothc1200
hull?c1225
lodge1290
hottea1325
holetc1380
tavern1382
scalea1400
schura1400
tugury1412
donjon?a1439
cabinc1440
coshc1490
cabinet1579
bully1598
crib1600
shed1600
hut1637
hovela1640
boorachc1660
barrack1686
bothy1750
corf1770
rancho1819
shanty1820
kraal1832
shelty1834
shackle1835
mia-mia1837
wickiup1838
caboose1839
chantier1849
hangar1852
caban1866
shebang1867
humpy1873
shack1878
hale1885
bach1927
jhuggi1927
favela1961
hokkie1973
1867 W. L. Goss Soldier's Story viii. 153 By common consent, if any one had complaints to make, he carried them to the ‘shebang’ of Big Peter.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 334 We've got a shebang fixed up for you to stand behind, in No. I's house.
1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 27 Their shebang enclosures of bushes.
1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 27 The soldiers guarding the road came out from their tents or shebangs of bushes.
1890 N. P. Langford Vigilante Days I. 83 Towards the close of the summer of 1862, the band organized by Plummer [an outlaw] having increased in numbers, he selected two points of rendezvous, as bases for their operations. These were called ‘shebangs’.
b. Applied to a vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [noun]
chariot1594
vehiculum?1632
triumphal1633
vehicle1656
machinament1674
machine1759
rig1831
shebang1872
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvi. 327 You're welcome to ride here as long as you please, but this shebang's chartered.
1877 B. Harte Story of Mine 85 That..don't fetch me even of he'd chartered the whole shebang.
1899 A. M. Binstead Houndsditch Day by Day 198 In a four-wheeled fever-box you must take your beaver on your knees or get it hopelessly ruffled against the roof of the old shebang.
c. A low drinking establishment, a tavern.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
1878 C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. x Shebang, any sort of structure from a shanty to a hotel.]
1901 G. Parker Right of Way viii. 49 There were people who called the tavern a ‘shebang’.
1908 B. W. Sinclair Raw Gold vi. 68 There was a sort of sheebang—you couldn't call it a hotel if you had any regard for the truth—on the outskirts of Walsh for the accommodation of wayfarers without a camp-outfit.
1963 E. C. Guillet Pioneer Farmer I. xix. 314 Less picturesque were the shebangs dotted along the rivers, where squaws and whiskey awaited the shanty boys and their winter pay.
2. ‘More widely, almost any matter of present concern; thing; business; as, tired of the whole shebang’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). Frequently in the whole shebang (see also sense 1b).
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair
charec897
matter?c1225
journeya1352
affairc1390
notea1400
incident1485
concernment1495
actiona1500
business1524
concern1680
job1680
ploya1689
show1797
game1812
caper1839
pigeon dropping1850
shebang1869
hoodoo1876
racket1880
palaver1899
scene1964
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 26 I like the book, I like you and your style and your business vim, and believe the chebang will be a success.
1904 W. N. Harben Georgians ix. 88 I sold out my shebang, put the money in my pocket.
1924 H. Crane Let. 5 Dec. (1965) 196 I am growing more and more sick of factions, gossip, jealousies, recriminations, excoriations and the whole literary shee-bang.
1933 E. E. Cummings Let. 13 Sept. (1969) 124 Camels placidly nibble the whole shebang, not merely the smallish but the spike thorns.
1948 V. Palmer Golconda xiv. 109 I've..seen him standing up there on one of those outcrops overlooking the company's buildings as if he'd like to call down fire from heaven on the whole shebang.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 7 May iv. 5/2 You can't get rid of the feeling..that the people in charge of the shebang are far more pessimistic and confused than they were the last time you were here.
1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. iii. 28 The standard deviation is then calculated by dividing the total number of wells, N, into the sum of all the group deviations..and then taking the square root of the whole shebang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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