heck
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Interjection [edit]
heck
- (euphemistic) Hell.
- What the heck are you doing?
Translations [edit]
euphemism of hell
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Noun [edit]
heck (uncountable)
- (euphemistic) Hell.
- You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
Synonyms [edit]
- See under hell.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
See hatch (“a half door”).
Alternative forms [edit]
Noun [edit]
heck (plural hecks)
- The bolt or latch of a door.
- A rack for cattle to feed at.
- A door, especially one partly of latticework.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- A bend or winding of a stream.
External links [edit]
- heck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- heck in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- heck at OneLook Dictionary Search