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1.1 Etymology ... Origin proposed [1]: Known to go back at least to year 1862 (Walt Whitman), shebang is suspected to originate from the French word char-a-banc, which was a bus-like wagon with a lot of seats, but no specific connection has been proven as of now.
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1.1 Etymology ... From shebang. ... Singular; whole shebang...
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en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whole_shebang
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Now on to shebang. You may be surprised to learn that it ... It is the etymology. The OED cops out with "of obscure origin", but other sources suggest a derivation from French char-a-banc, the name of a bus-like wagon with many seats. That appears to be only a good guess, however, for no connection has been demonstrated.
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Shebang (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computing, a shebang (also called a hashbang , hashpling , pound bang , or crunchbang ) refers to the characters " #! " when they are the first two characters in a text file. In a Unix-...
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Etymologies: fret, shebang, moron English Only ... shebang, as in "the whole ~" ; yack, as in "to talk incessantly -> cf. Antonio's question; ah, and finally "moron"... certainly a key concept and critical adjunct to the American tongue. As I recall according to the old version of wordreference.com it's from Greek "moros"....
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Whole Shebang Mean ... Etymology of Shebang ... Meaning of Shebang...
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The whole shebang - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... Could 'shebang' be a variant of 'sharra-bang'? Well, it's certainly possible, although the evidence to support that view is entirely circumstantial.
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This etymology is logical for another meaning of shebang, 'a vehicle', as in Mark Twain's Roughing It: "This shebang's chartered, and we can't let you pay a cent" (1871). The connection between a horse-drawn carriage and a shelter is either the whitewater-rapids version of semantic drift, or just plain wrong.
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shebang operating system; (Or "shebang line", "bang path") /sh*-bang'/ (From "sharp" and "bang") The magic cookie "#!" used in Unix to mark the start of a script, e.g. a shell script or Perl script. ... Use shebang in a Sentence...
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