shebang

Example Sentences

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Skin’s first real exposure to music was through the shebeens her grandad would throw – however, the last time she labelled his parties as such in an interview, she got in trouble with her mum.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2019

Ananias Léki Dago, based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, takes us from the black shebeens, or social clubs, of Johannesburg to the sheet-metal neighborhoods of Nairobi and the dusty boulevards of Bamako.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016

This new music startled the jazz world by splicing the sounds of township dancehalls and shebeens, African Methodist hymns of Brand's Cape Town childhood, and the American jazz of Ellington and Thelonious Monk.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2011

Actually there are not enough police available to supervise the shebeens or control the populace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some hurried home, there to feed the many hungry mouths awaiting their arrival; others headed for the crazy comfort of shebeens where, in one fleeting moment of glory, they could be masters of their destinies.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane