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jingbang

jingbang noun: a thing, a lot, a shebang.

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...
    • Bloom was pointing out all the stars and the comets in the heavens to Chris Callinan and the jarvey: the great bear and Hercules and the dragon, and the whole jingbang lot.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: The Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 225

Forms of jingbang

pluraljingbangs
alternative formjing-bang

Questions about jingbang

What does jingbang mean?
Jingbang means a thing, a lot, a shebang.
What part of speech is jingbang?
Jingbang is a noun.
What is the plural of jingbang?
The plural of jingbang is jingbangs.

Words near jingbang in the dictionary

  1. jingalls
  2. jingals
  3. Jingan
  4. Jingang
  5. Jingangshan
  6. jingbang
  7. jingbangs
  8. Jingbian
  9. Jingchuan
  10. Jingdezhen
  11. Jingellic

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