slang. Also jimbang. [Origin not recorded.] In phr. the whole jingbang: the whole lot, company, concern or affair.
1866. W. Gregor, Banffsh. Gloss., Jingbang, the whole number.
a. 1884. Peerie, Nugæ Eccles., i. 22. Here they come—the whole jingbang.
1886. Stevenson, Kidnapped, vii. (1891), 61. The chief mate … was … ‘the only seaman of the whole jing-bang.’
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 183. The best thing … is to leave the whole jimbang in his hands altogether. Ibid., 321. I … bought the whole jimbang right out.
