Usually means: Everything, the entire amount given.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word the whole nine yards:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. the whole nine yards: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. the whole nine yards: Merriam-Webster
  3. the whole nine yards: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. the whole nine yards: Collins English Dictionary
  5. the whole nine yards: Dictionary.com
  6. The Whole Nine Yards (film), The Whole Nine Yards, The whole nine yards: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Whole nine yards, the: World Wide Words
  8. the whole nine yards: Wiktionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the whole nine yards: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the whole nine yards: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (the whole nine yards)

adverb:  All the way; with everything done completely or thoroughly.
noun:  (And) everything; often used, like etc., to finish out a list.

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