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Noun
jingbang (plural jingbangs)
- (chiefly Scotland, colloquial) A thing, a lot, a shebang.
1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: , London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 61:It made my heart bleed; but the men had a great respect for the chief mate, who was, as they said, "the only seaman of the whole jing-bang, and none such a bad man when he was sober."
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: The Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part II , page 225:Bloom was pointing out all the stars and the comets in the heavens to Chris Callinan and the jarvey: the great bear and Hercules and the dragon, and the whole jingbang lot.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, “Sunset Song”, in A Scots Quair, Polygon, published 2006, page 16:And he called them Bloody Scotch savages, and was in an awful rage and at the term-time he had them sacked, the whole jing-bang of them, so sore affronted he had been.