whole shebang
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Fossil Word
March 26, 2025
Fossil Word
Shebang dates to the Civil War and may come from the Irish 'shebeen' or French 'cabane'. Today it is a fossil word (and a cool one too) existing only in the phrase 'whole pshebang' mean everything or all of it. Sadly no one has been able to construct a wordcel puzzle with shebang, yet.
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