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Whole nine yards 

Phrase equivalent to "Everything that is available." Has nothing to do with football. In fact, the phrase comes from the fact that fighter planes are equipped with belt-fed machine guns. When the belts are laid out before loading, they measure nine yards in length. If a pilot were to empty his plane's guns into a target, he'd be giving it the "whole nine yards."
I bought the TV, the home theater system... The whole nine yards.
Whole nine yards by Angel Panties December 16, 2003
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the whole nine yards 

Giving it all, taken from WW2 B-17 gunners who had a string of bullets that fed into their guns that measured nine yards long
Give them the whole nine yards.

The Whole Nine Yards 

A term dating back to World War 2 referring to a fighter pilot using up all of his ammunition attempting to bring down an enemy plane, the ammunition belts the guns used being nine yards in length on average, hence the term.
I gave him The Whole Nine Yards, and he still wouldn't go down!
The Whole Nine Yards by dood87 March 31, 2010

Whole Nine Yards 

The length of a belt of machine-gun ammuition used in some WWII fighter plains
'gave him the whole nine yards
Whole Nine Yards by Archerr December 27, 2003

the full nine yards 

A WWII term means giving everything you got.

The length of 50 cal ammo belt was 27 feet or 9 yards. so if the pilot returned to base and used all of the bullets, he had gone the full 9 yards.
He went the full nine yards to impress the client

the whole nine yards not the first six inches 

1. What a woman should be looking for in a man. (combination of the phrase "whole nine yards" as in: Phrase equivalent to "Everything that is available." and Six Inches, the length of the average male penis)
"Girl, what you need to be looking for is the whole nine yards not the first six inches."

choking my nine yards

The boy was choking my nine yards.
choking my nine yards by RST73 November 19, 2007