whole shebang

Questions about whole shebang

What does whole shebang mean?

whole shebang means "everything available; usually preceded by `the'".

What is another word for whole shebang?

Close synonyms include whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle, whole kit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whole shebang a common word?

whole shebang is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.