A place or situation of great suffering in life.
My new boss is making my job a hell.
A place for gambling.
Here’s five-and-twenty for you. Don’t be losing it at the hells now.
Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.
Used to emphasize.
Hell yeah!
Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
- Oh, aren't they sweet?
Very; used to emphasize strongly.
That was hell good!
From Middle English helle, from Old English hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“concealed place, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, sav...
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An extremely hot place.
You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell.
Do it, or, rest assured, there will be no more Middle Eastern crisis – hell, there will be no more Middle East!
To pour.
18th century, Josiah Relph, The Harvest; or Bashful Shepherd Gosh, the sickle went into me handː Down hell'd the bluid.