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schebang

schebang is the alternative form of shebang.

Meaning of shebang

Noun (1)

shebang (plural shebangs)

  1. (US, dated, informal) A lean-to or temporary shelter.
    • Their shebang enclosures of bushes.1862 December, Walt Whitman, Journal
  2. (US, dated, informal) A place or building; a store, saloon, or brothel.
    • Along all the roads on the reservation to all the mines, at the crossing of every stream or fresh-water spring, and near the principal Indian villages, an inn or shebang is established, ostensibly for the entertainment of travellers, but almost universally used as a den for supplying liquor to...1862 June 30, Charles Hutchins, Letter G 10, Report of the Secretary of the Interior
    Synonyms:
    jawn, joint
  3. (informal) Any matter of present concern; thing; or business; most commonly in the phrase the whole shebang.
    • On the third the whole "chebang" was removed [...]1863, James Bryan, A Short Account of the "Mary Ann" Hospital, Grand Gulf, Miss.
    Synonyms:
    jawn, jimbang
  4. (informal, obsolete) A vehicle.
    • […] So they got into the empty omnibus and sat down. Colonel Jack says: “...What is the name of this.” Colonel Jim told him it was a barouche. After a while he poked his head out in front and said to the driver, “I say, Johnny, this suits me. We want this shebang all day. Let the horses go.”1871, December 14, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), “Roughing It” (lecture), printed in Fred W. Lorch, “Mark Twain’s Lecture from Roughing it”, in American Literature, volume 22, number 3 (November...

Noun (2)

shebang (plural shebangs)

  1. The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems.
    Synonyms:
    hashbang

Forms of schebang

pluralschebangs

Questions about schebang

What is schebang the alternative form of?
Schebang is the alternative form of shebang.

Words near schebang in the dictionary

  1. Schauts
  2. schav
  3. Schawbel
  4. schchi
  5. Scheat
  6. schebang
  7. schebangs
  8. schechina
  9. schechinah
  10. schechinahs
  11. schechinas

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