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jing-bang

jing-bang is the alternative spelling of jingbang.

Meaning of jingbang

Noun

jingbang (plural jingbangs)

  1. (Scotland, colloquial) A thing, a lot, a shebang.
    • It made my heart bleed; but the men had a great respect for the chief mate, who was, as they said, "the only seaman of the whole jing-bang, and none such a bad man when he was sober."1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris...

Questions about jing-bang

What is jing-bang the alternative spelling of?
Jing-bang is the alternative spelling of jingbang.

Words near jing-bang in the dictionary

  1. Jineses
  2. Jinfeng
  3. jing
  4. jing ping
  5. Jing'an
  6. jing-bang
  7. jing-jang
  8. jingal
  9. Jingali
  10. jingall
  11. jingalls

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