Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the whole lot; as in the phr. the whole jing-bang (lot).

1857		J. Harrison Laird of Restalrig’s Daughter 256: By the pipes if Brian Boroimhe, but iv ye'd only seen how the whole jing bang if them ran that time!
1867		S. Ferguson et al. Father Tom & Pope 71: He’s out and out the cleverest fellow ov the whole jing-bang.
1875		R. Jefferies Restless Human Hearts II 81: Ritualist, Broad, Low, High, Nonconformist, Methodist, Itinerant, the whole jing-bang, as the Americans say, never ceased their cuckoo cry, ‘Immoral, unscriptural!’ .
1884		Edinburgh Eve. News 6 June 3/4: They had been drinking something stronger nor water, an’ then the hale jing-bang began tae let off gas.
1886		R.L. Stevenson Kidnapped 61: The men had a great respect for the chief mate, who was, as they say, ‘the only seaman of the whole jing-bang’.
1897		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 27 Nov. 3/6: A great many very old people [...] have broken the whole jing-bang of these rules.
1908		Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 3 Apr. 2/3: Preserve us a’! the hale jing-bang / Were dressed like ither men!
1912		P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 238: ‘[A]ny class or sect or section or gang or outfit or crew or society or community or lot or set or jing-bang [etc]’.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 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.
1949		Post (Lanarks.) 25 Sept. 8/2: [headline] The Whole jing-Bang Vanished in a Night.

2. (W.I.) a noisy, dirty crowd; thus as adj., noisy [and] crowded.

1943		cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).
1983		T. White Catch a Fire 70: Dere be a jing-bang balmyard [...] and a crowded Church dis Sabbath.

3. (W.I.) a low-class, rough, noisy person.

1966		(ref. to 1940s) L. Bennett Jamaica Labrish 223: jing-bang, good-for-nothing, ordinary.
1995		Francis-Jackson Official Dancehall Dict. 28: Jing-bang of the lower classes; inappropriate behaviour: u. yuh nuh see ’im a jing-bang.

4. (W.I.) a promiscuous woman.

1943

cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).