noun. A situation, organization, contrivance, or set of facts or things.

noun. A shanty; place; “concern”: as, who lives in this shebang ? he threatened to clean out the whole shebang.

noun. A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop; a primitive dwelling; a shanty.

noun. The structure of an object, process, organization, or anything viewed as complicated; -- used primarily in the phrase the whole shebang.

noun. The character sequence #!, which frequently begins shell scripts in a Unix system.

noun. 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.

noun. Any matter of present concern; thing; or business.

noun. A lean-to or temporary shelter.

noun. an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'

"Overseeing the whole shebang is Big Chief Random Chaos, possibly not the most suitable candidate for a position requiring organisational skills, but the in-house hosts will be on hand to mop up any spillages."

whole shebang  

scheme  system  

backbone  caboodle  enchilada  footbridge  gang-plank  

hashbang  shanty