单词 | shebang |
释义 | shebangn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1867 |
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