Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the whole bang shoot

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: the w-hole bang shoot
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The whole lot, everything involved, every one, the entire process.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"“My good fellow,” grumbled Dr. Brown, he turned at the top of the bungalow steps to deliver this ultimatum, “he hates the whole bang lot of us." ... page 234 ... “I noticed that he hated you.” Brown admitted, “but that is nothing new. He hates, as I have remarked before, the whole bang shoot of us.”"
"Anyway," he added, with the touch of the true optimist, "it's lucky I watched her, or she'd have carried off the whole bang shoot in less than thirty minutes.""
""...he said something about Hughes not caring a rush for any man's life, least of all his own! Said Hughes was sublimely indifferent to the whole bang shoot. I am beginning to understand what he meant.""

Etymology

Uncertain. Apparently late nineteenth or early 20th century. Unsupported contradictory suggestions suggest derivation from shebang or vice versa. However, "shebang" may be older.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

the whole bang lot (alternative) the bang shoot (alternative)

Synonyms

all the marbles bag and baggage everytang everything but the galley stove everything but the kitchen sink everything under the sun full monty hook line and sinker kit and caboodle lock stock and barrel

Questions

What does the whole bang shoot mean?: The whole lot, everything involved, every one, the entire process.
Where does the whole bang shoot come from?: Uncertain. Apparently late nineteenth or early 20th century. Unsupported contradictory suggestions suggest derivation from shebang or vice versa. However, "shebang" may be older.

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