Definition of hell in English English dictionary
- Any of various towns so named
- Alternative spelling of hell. Place of suffering for sinners
- A place or situation of great suffering in life
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
- Used to emphasize
Hell, yeah!.
- An extremely hot place
You don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
- Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun
He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
- Used to express negative discontent
Oh, hell! I got another parking ticket.
- In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
- A place for gambling
the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; .
- The place where devils live and where sinners are punished after death
Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.
- {n} the place of the damned, the grave, prison
- Place of suffering for sinners
- A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type
- emphasis If you say that someone is going hell for leather, you are emphasizing that they are doing something or are moving very quickly and perhaps carelessly. The first horse often goes hell for leather, hits a few fences but gets away with it
- This word occurs eighteen times in the New Testament In nine instances the Greek word is Hades; in eight instances it is Gehenna; and in one it is Tartarus Hades: Matt xi 23, xvi 18; Luke xvi 23; Acts ii 31; 1 Cor xv 55; Rev i 18, vi 8, xx 13, 14 (See Hades ) Gehenna: Matt v 22, 29, x 28, xiii 15, xviii 9, xxiii 15, 33; James iii 6 (See Gehenna ) Tartarus: 2 Peter ii 4 (See Tartaros ) Descended into hell (Creed) means the place of the dead (Anglo-Saxon, helan, to cover or conceal, like the Greek "Hades," the abode of the dead, from the verb a-cido, not to see In both cases it means "the unseen world" or "the world concealed from sight " The god of this nether world was called "Hades" by the Greeks, and "Hel" or "Hela" by the Scandinavians In some counties of England to cover in with a roof is "to hell the building," and thatchers or tilers are termed "helliers " Lead apes in hell (See Ape )
- emphasis You can use as hell after adjectives or some adverbs to emphasize the adjective or adverb. The men might be armed, but they sure as hell weren't trained
- (Rivers of) Classic authors tell us that the Inferno is encompassed by five rivers: Acheron, Cocytus, Styx, Phlegethon, and Lethe Acheron from the Greek achos-reo, grief-flowing; Cocytus, from the Greek kokuo, to weep, supposed to be a flood of tears; Styx, from the Greek stugeo, to loathe; Phlegethon, from the Greek phleo to burn; and Lethê, from the Greek letle, oblivion Five hateful rivers round Inferno run, Grief comes the first, and then the Flood of tears, Next loathsome Styx, then liquid Flame appears, Lethe comes last, or blank oblivion E C B
- emphasis If you say that all hell breaks loose, you are emphasizing that a lot of arguing or fighting suddenly starts. He had an affair, I found out and then all hell broke loose
- Collective entities do not exist unless there are individuals that support them by allowing themselves to be manipulated by them If all of the individuals forming a collective entity were to die and ressurect within the Church, then that entity would cease to exist The collective entity has no soul It is like a parasite depending entirely on its constituents But if the individuals were to die without accepting Christ, they would still be constituents of their collective entities and they would still be under the entity's control The entity would continue to exist through the souls of the dead The fate of the individual would depend entirely on the whims of the collective entities
- emphasis Some people say like hell to emphasize that they strongly disagree with you or are strongly opposed to what you say. `I'll go myself.' --- `Like hell you will!'
- emphasis If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it. The only way to preserve democracy is to raise hell about its shortcomings
- feelings If you tell someone to go to hell, you are angrily telling them to go away and leave you alone. `Well, you can go to hell!' He swept out of the room
- feelings You can say `what the hell' when you decide to do something in spite of the doubts that you have about it. What the hell, I thought, at least it will give the lazy old man some exercise
- If you go through hell, or if someone puts you through hell, you have a very difficult or unpleasant time. All of you seem to have gone through hell making this record
- emphasis If you say you hope to hell or wish to hell that something is true, you are emphasizing that you strongly hope or wish it is true. I hope to hell you're right
- emphasis If you describe a place or situation as a living hell, you are emphasizing that it is extremely unpleasant. School is a living hell for some children
- emphasis You can use from hell after a noun when you are emphasizing that something or someone is extremely unpleasant or evil. He's a child from hell
- A gambling house
- a place created for Satan and his angels; a place of eternal torment Hell is a created place, but it was never intended for man to go there It is a place where unbelievers are punished for their sins on earth Jesus spoke of a man who died and was tormented in hell with flames Luke 16: 19-31
- noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong
- emphasis People sometimes use the hell for emphasis in questions, after words such as `what', `where', and `why', often in order to express anger. Where the hell have you been?
- To overwhelm
- emphasis If you say `to hell with' something, you are emphasizing that you do not care about something and that it will not stop you from doing what you want to do. To hell with this, I'm getting out of here. Abode of evildoers after death, or the state of existence of souls damned to punishment after death. Most ancient religions included the concept of a place that divided the good from the evil or the living from the dead (e.g., the gloomy subterranean realm of Hades in Greek religion, or the cold and dark underworld of Nilfheim or Hel in Norse mythology). The view that hell is the final dwelling place of the damned after a last judgment is held by Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Jewish concept of Gehenna as an infernal region of punishment for the wicked was the basis for the Christian vision of hell as the fiery domain of Satan and his evil angels and a place of punishment for those who die without repenting of their sins. In Hinduism hell is only one stage in the career of the soul as it passes through the phases of reincarnation. The schools of Buddhism have varying conceptions of hell, usually entailing some kind of punishment or purgatory. In Jainism, hell is a purgatory in which sinners are tormented by demons until the evil of their lives has been exhausted
- In scripture, the word hell translates the Hebrew word sheol and the Greek word hades, both of which refer to the realm of the dead Before Christ, the souls of all the dead, whether wicked or righteous, went to this realm to await the Resurrection and the Judgment In popular religion, hell refers to the place of eternal torment, which is called the Lake of Fire, Tartarus, or Gehenna in scripture According to Jesus in Matthew 25: 41, this place of eternal torment was designed for the devil and his angels, not for humans Thus humans can escape this fate through repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, justification, and sanctification
- Inducement to take action Can lead us to empathy for those who are also suffering Misery, agony, frustration, feelings of helplessness The lowest state of life
- {ü} damn!, confound it! (used to express displeasure, irritation, etc.)
- H7585 she'owl, sheh-ole'; or she'ol, sheh-ole'; from H7592; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), includ its accessories and inmates: --grave, hell, pit
- any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"
- emphasis If you say that a particular situation or place is hell, you are emphasizing that it is extremely unpleasant. the hell of the Siberian labor camps = misery
- A place where outcast persons or things are gathered A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention
- Hence, any mental torment; anguish
- The place where the wicked people and the evil angels go for punishment according to Christian teachings There are various differences in belief on - IF it is a real place WHEN people go there WHERE it exists HOW LONG Hell will last See Heaven
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong
- "In Christian theology, the eternal abode of those damned by God Souls in hell are led by Satan and deprived forever of the sight of God In legend it is a place of fire and brimstone, where the damned undergo physical torment " See full definition at Hell [E c] See also Hades In spite of the fact that great theologians have for centuries argued about just what the hell Hell [CE] is, and whether or not it exists at all, Fundies are absolutely certain that they alone have the real skinny on the subject The Fundie knows that it is the Devil working through liberal theologians who would do away with hell or claim that hell is a state of mind or a place where only those who wish to be there will reside Fundies describe hell in no uncertain terms: It is a place where people are going to fry Forever And ever Hell is the fulfillment of the the Fundie's childish revenge fantasy, a place where he resides in this life with the hope of avoiding it in another one
- To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion. In British English, you can also say that one person or thing plays merry hell with another. Lord Beaverbrook, to put it bluntly, played hell with the war policy of the R.A.F
- (religion) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died"
- emphasis If you say that you will do something come hell or high water, you are emphasizing that you are determined to do it, in spite of the difficulties involved. I've always managed to get into work come hell or high water
- {i} place of punishment and torture where the wicked are sent after their death; misery, torment
- emphasis If you say that someone can go to hell, you are emphasizing angrily that you do not care about them and that they will not stop you doing what you want. Peter can go to hell. It's my money and I'll leave it to who I want
- In some religions, hell is the place where the Devil lives, and where wicked people are sent to be punished when they die. Hell is usually imagined as being under the ground and full of flames
- To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"
- If someone does something for the hell of it, or just for the hell of it, they do it for fun or for no particular reason. Managers seem to be spending millions just for the hell of it
- emphasis Some people use the hell out of for emphasis after verbs such as `scare', `irritate', and `beat'. I patted the top of her head in the condescending way I knew irritated the hell out of her
- emphasis If you say that a place or a situation is hell on earth or a hell on earth, you are emphasizing that it is extremely unpleasant or that it causes great suffering. She believed she would die in the snake-infested sand dunes. She said: `It was hell on earth'. = living hell
- Hell is the future place of eternal punishment of the damned including the devil and his fallen angels There are several words rendered as Hell: Hades - A Greek word It is the place of the dead, the location of the person between death and resurrection (See Matt 11: 23; 16: 18; Acts 11: 27; 1 Cor 15: 55; Rev 1: 18; 6: 8) Gehenna - A Greek word It was the place where dead bodies were dumped and burned (2 Kings 23: 13-14) Jesus used the word to designate the place of eternal torment (Matt 5: 22,29,30; Mark 9: 43; Luke 12: 5) Sheol - A Hebrew word It is the place of the dead, not necessarily the grave, but the place the dead go to It is used of both the righteous (Psalm 16: 10; 30: 3; Isaiah 38: 10) and the wicked (Num 16: 33; Job 24: 19; Psalm 9: 17) Hell is a place of eternal fire (Matt 25: 41; Rev 19: 20) It was prepared for the devil and his angels (Matt 25: 41) and will be the abode of the wicked (Rev 22: 8) and the fallen angels (2 Pet 2: 4)
- The idea of hell as a place of punishment burning with fire and brimstone does have some foundation in the Bible
- violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
- emphasis If you talk about a hell of a lot of something, or one hell of a lot of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it. The manager took a hell of a lot of money out of the club
- noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"
- The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits
- a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"
- The real existence of hell is irrefutably taught in Scripture as both a place of the wicked dead and a condition of retribution for the unredeemed (e g , Ezek 3: 18; Dan 12: 2) The nature of hell is indicated by the repeated reference to eternal punishment (Matt 25: 46), eternal fire (18: 8, Jude 7), everlasting chains (Jude 6), the pit of the Abyss (Rev 9: 2, 11), outer darkness (Matt 8: 12), the wrath of God (Rom 2: 5), second death (Rev 21: 8), eternal destruction from the face of God (2 Thess 1: 9), and eternal sin (Mark 3: 29) Three basic ideas are associated with the concept of hell: absence of righteousness (Mark 3: 29), separation from God (John 3: 36), and judgment (Matt 8: 12; 25: 31-46)
- emphasis Some people use like hell to emphasize how strong an action or quality is. It hurts like hell
- The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades
- emphasis If you say there'll be hell to pay, you are emphasizing that there will be serious trouble. There would be hell to pay when Ferguson and Tony found out about it
- emphasis Hell is used by some people when they are angry or excited, or when they want to emphasize what they are saying. `Hell, no!' the doctor snapped
- To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit" a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes" any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"
- emphasis Some people use a hell of or one hell of to emphasize that something is very good, very bad, or very big. Whatever the outcome, it's going to be one hell of a fight
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"
- devil
- Hell no
- Alternative spelling of hell no
- Hell's Kitchen
- A neighborhood in New York City (also known as Clinton), that was historically known for poor living conditions
- Hell's Kitchen
- Any neighborhood with a reputation for poverty and a large amount of crime
- hell and half of Georgia
- a very large region; everywhere
The hitch is that the ship is so powerful—it must be, to do the things for which it has been designed—that its twin rotors blast away Hell and half of Georgia with the turbulence it causes on landing or taking off.
- hell and tommy
- expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration
- hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
- A woman will make someone suffer if they reject her
- hell hounds
- plural form of hell hound
- hell in a cell
- is a type of wrestling match in which the wrestlers are enclosed around a cage with steel
- hell no
- Expressing firm disagreement
Will you mow the lawn? Hell no!.
- hell on earth
- A very unpleasant situation; torment, particularly when widespread
- hell on wheels
- Tough, aggressive, lawless, wild
- hell or high water
- No matter what the adverse circumstances
I am a man of my word, hell or high water.
- hell or high water
- Highly adverse circumstances; acts of God
Corn had to be hoed three times and plowed five in spite of hell or high water.
- hell west and crooked
- scattered, all over the place
- hell's bells
- expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration
- hell's teeth
- an exclamation of surprise or anger
- hell-for-leather
- as fast as possible; recklessly fast
He rode hell-for-leather to catch up with the stagecoach.
- Hell's bells and buckets of blood
- (Ev ile ilgili) An exclamation of anger or surprise. (Use caution with hell.)
- Hell's bells
- (Ev ile ilgili) An exclamation of anger or surprise. (Use caution with hell.)
- hell or high water
- (deyim) Difficulties of whatever kind or size
She will stand by her convictions come hell or high water.
- hell yeah
- (Oyunlar) Oh Hell (also known as Up the River, Hell Yeah!, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, Kari's Lane, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of "Oh Hell" with euphemisms and other swearwords) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades, where taking more tricks than bid is a loss. Its first appearance dates to the early 1930s and is sometimes credited to Geoffrey Mott-Smith
- hell-for-leather
- at full speed or with great speed
- hell-for-leather
- with all of one's energy, will, etc.; with wholehearted or reckless determination
- Hell Gate
- A narrow channel of the East River in New York City between Manhattan and Long Island. It was named by the Dutch navigator Adriaen Block (fl. 1610-1624), who passed through it into Long Island Sound in 1614
- Hell's Angels
- American club of motorcycle enthusiasts
- Hell's Kitchen
- {i} neighborhood in Manhattan (New York City, USA); neighborhood in Winnipeg in the province of Manitoba (Canada); extremely poor neighborhood
- hell bent
- {s} reckless, impulsive; determined
- hell of a
- heck of a, remarkable, special, extraordinary (Slang)
- hell of a life
- terrible living conditions
- hell of a lot
- very much, quite a lot
- hell of a noise
- terrible noise
- hell on earth
- horrible situation, miserable condition
- hell to pay
- dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay"
- hell to pay
- dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay
- hell's kitchen
- a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice
- hell-bent
- emphasis If you say that someone is hell-bent on doing something, you are emphasizing that they are determined to do it, even if this causes problems or difficulties for other people. He accused Ford of being hell-bent on achieving its cuts by whatever means. very determined to do something, especially something that other people do not approve of hell-bent on (doing) sth
- hell-bent
- recklessly determined; "hell-bent on winning
- hell-bent
- recklessly determined; "hell-bent on winning"
- hell-fire
- fire of perdition, flames of Hell
- hell-for-leather
- at breakneck speed; "they were travelling hell-for-leather
- hell-for-leather
- at breakneck speed; "they were travelling hell-for-leather"
- hell-hole
- a very dirty, ugly, and unpleasant place
- hell-kite
- someone who is a very fierce fighter
- hell-raiser
- If you describe someone as a hell-raiser, you mean that they often behave in a wild and unacceptable way, especially because they have drunk too much alcohol
- DLL hell
- Problems caused by incompatible versions of a DLL (dynamic-link library)
Another feature of Windows 2000 or later Windows operating systems that deals with DLL Hell is file protection: system DLLs are protected.
- Hella
- Any of various place names (see Wikipedia for places with this name)
- a cold day in Hell
- An event that will never happen
Yea, that will happen if it is a cold day in hell.
- all hell breaks loose
- The situation becomes chaotic or characterized by conflict or rage
- all hell broke loose
- A great disaster happened or chaos ensued
When the fire alarm went off, all hell broke loose as the crowd made for the exits.
- all over hell's half acre
- All over the place; everywhere
We came back outside and the neat pile of leaves we had raked had been blown all over Hell’s half acre.
- as hell
- To a great extent or degree; very
- bastard operator from hell
- a rogue operator (system administrator, root user, superuser, host manager, system manager) who abuses users on the system that he or she operates, when he or she thinks they are annoying (being lusers)
- bastard operators from hell
- plural form of bastard operator from hell
- bleeding hell
- expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration
- bloody hell
- An expression of dismay, disgust, anger, surprise etc
He's not really eating those is he? Bloody hell! That's disgusting!.
- bloody hell
- placed before a verb to add emphasis to a sentence
What the bloody hell are you doing here?.
- blooming hell
- expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration
- bullet hell
- A genre of two-dimensional shoot 'em up in which the playfield is almost filled with a barrage of enemy bullets
A few of the game cabinets are connected to flat-screen TVs so bystanders can stop and ogle. Grimy VCRs are hooked up to bullet-hell shooting games.
- burn in hell
- Statement of anger directed at someone in contempt, especially after that individual had done something very wrong
The mother told the murder trial defendant that he could burn in hell for killing her son and taking her daughter-in-law away.
- catch hell
- be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten
- come hell or high water
- Regardless of the hardships
The pioneers were determined to build a community in the wilderness come hell or high water.
- dammit to hell
- Used to express anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment
, Bob Armstrong, “”, AFTER BATTERY:Dammit to hell… The entire time I've been in the gahdam Navy, I've never known where my butt is gonna be next week.
- dammit to hell
- Either sick or ill
That person is dammit to hell!.
- for the hell of it
- For no particular reason, just because it is fun, entertaining; for to relieve boredom
There's no big unrest; we're having a revolution just for the hell of it.
- forty minutes of hell
- The NCAA strategy of playing a suffocating full-court press and aggressive offense for the entirety of a game
- from hell
- exceptionally bad or unpleasant
The Hensley's are neighbours from hell.
- fucking hell
- An exclamation of great surprise
Fucking hell, that wrestler's huge.
- fucking hell
- An exclamation of anger
Fucking hell, why are you so bloody late?.
- go through hell
- To have a miserable experience
If you're going through hell, just keep going.
- go to hell
- Literally, go to Hell
Why did Nancy do that to Jake? She can go to hell.
- go to hell
- Go "out the window", to be ruined, now useless
Well, that plan has gone to hell.
- go to hell
- Expression of anger directed at someone in contempt, especially after that individual had done something very wrong
You want me to voluntarily work the weekend without pay? Go to hell!.
- goes to hell
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of go to hell
- going to hell
- Present participle of go to hell
- gone to hell
- Past participle of go to hell
- harrowing of hell
- A raid into the underworld by a heroic figure
- harrowings of hell
- plural form of harrowing of hell
- hella
- Intensifier (modifies adjectives); to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly
I've been a Star Wars fan since I was hella young.
- hella
- Hell have
Where the hella you been?.
- hella
- For sure; totally; hell yeah; used as a strong affirmation of something that was just said, accomplished, or revealed
We definitely rocked that shit man! Hella!.
- hella
- Intensifier (modifies verbs); to a large extent; totally; very much
Oh, today's Cyrell's bday. We hella sang her happy birthday at the spot.
- hella
- Intensifier, signifies an abundance of a thing; much or many
There are hella people here.
- hella
- a lot; or, a hell of a lot
We paid hella for that Chinese cuisine.
- hot as hell
- A colloquial phrase used to describe anything in that could be described as hot in the extreme. Used to describe a wide variety of factors, exempli gratia temperature, spiciness of a food or aesthetically pleasing members of the opposite sex
- in one hell of a hurry
- in a very great hurry; very fast or hastily
He went there in one hell of a hurry..
- like a bat out of hell
- With crazy or excessive intensity or speed
He came tearing around the corner like a bat out of hell and nearly ran us over.
- like hell
- In a manner that uses all of the strength, speed, or effort that a person can summon
You'd better run like hell!.
- like hell
- Bad or badly
It stank like hell down there.!.
- like hell
- Used ironically to express the opposite of one's intentions
Me do the washing up? Like hell I will!.
- living hell
- A continuing state of extreme pain, punishment or torment with no seeming chance of reprieve
- match made in hell
- A very unsuccessful or conflicting combination of two people or things
- match made in hell
- A marriage that is likely to be unhappy or abusive and unsuccessful because the two people are very incompatible with each other
- no screaming hell
- Something that is not particularly effective or impressive; something that is below expectations
I hate to say it but Canadian television was no screaming hell before Corner Gas.
- raise hell
- To cause a considerable disturbance
- raise unshirted hell
- A superlative form of raise hell
- snowball's chance in hell
- Little or no likelihood of occurrence or success
That small boat has a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving the hurricane.
- sodding hell
- expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration
- the hell
- Used to indicate emphatic rejection of an assertion
B: The hell you can!.
- the hell
- Expletive used for emphasis after an interrogative word
- the hell out of
- Used as an intensifier
- the hell with it
- Expression where someone is essentially saying, "Forget about it;" usually said in disgust or frustration
I can't understand these directions to building this doghouse because they're so poorly written. The hell with it!.
- the road to hell is paved with good intentions
- well-intended acts can lead to disaster
- to hell in a handbasket
- To a bad state of affairs quickly
I watched as the guy in charge did nothing and the whole place went to hell in a handbasket.
- to hell with
- A phrase used to show displeasure or disregard to something
I don't want an elephant's soul, or any soul at all! he said. For a few moments he sat despondently. Suddenly he jumped to his feet, with his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement. To hell with you and your souls! he shouted. Why do you plague me about souls? Haven't I got enough to worry, and pain, to distract me already, without thinking of souls?.
- until hell freezes over
- forever; One will never in their life get the results that they want, no matter what they're doing involving the situation
They can be bellyaching to me about their life's problems until hell freezes over, but it doesn't mean that they'll ever get my sympathy.
- went to hell
- Simple past of go to hell
- what the hell
- Why not? or Who cares?
It’s expensive, but what the hell, you only live once.
- what the hell
- An intensive form of what
What the hell is going on?.
- when Hell freezes over
- never; not in this lifetime; not a chance
When Hell freezes over!.
- what the hell
- why not?; what on Earth?, what? (used to express surprise)
- what the hell does she want?
- what in the world does he desire?
- hellishly
- {a} in a hellish manner, very wickedly
- hellishness
- {n} abominable wickedness or behavior, great impiety, base or vile qualities
- Beat the hell out of
- (deyim) 1. Fig. to defeat someone very badly.2. Fig. Inf. to batter someone severely
- Oh Hell
- (Oyunlar) Oh Hell (also known as Up the River, Hell Yeah!, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, Kari's Lane, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of "Oh Hell" with euphemisms and other swearwords) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades, where taking more tricks than bid is a loss. Its first appearance dates to the early 1930s and is sometimes credited to Geoffrey Mott-Smith
- a hell of a
- (deyim) A very good or bad person or thing
1. That's a hell of a way to treat someone.
2. He's a hell of a driver! Watch out!
3. He is one hell of a guy. We really like him. We had a helluva good time.
- all hell breaks loose
- (deyim) Suddenly there is pandemonium
- all hell breaks loose
- (deyim) If all hell breaks loose, a situation suddenly becomes violent and noisy, especially with people arguing or fighting
One policeman drew his gun and then suddenly all hell broke loose.
- all hell broke loose
- See: all hell breaks loose
- all hell is let loose
- (deyim) If all hell is let loose, a situation suddenly becomes violent and noisy, especially with people arguing or fighting
One policeman drew his gun and then suddenly all hell is let loose.
- all hell let loose
- (deyim) Suddenly there is pandemonium
- as hell
- (as) ... as hell INFORMAL: used to emphasize a description of an unpleasant characteristic: "She's really quite unpleasant about other people and she's as mean as hell."
- bloody hell
- An exclamation of surprise or frustration
- feel like hell
- (deyim) Feel very ill or tired
- hella
- Very. Use instead of wicked
That's hella cool.
- like hell
- (deyim) 1. Used as an intensive: "He ran like hell to catch the bus."2. Used to express strong contradiction or refusal: "He says he's going along with usLike hell he is!"
- look like hell
- (deyim) look very ill or tired
- play hell
- Create havoc or cause damage
- scare the hell out of someone
- (deyim) Make someone feel extremely frightened, scare someone to death
His idea of fun scares the hell out of me.
- shut the hell up
- Be quiet, keep quiet, hold your tongue
- sure as hell
- Very sure; surely
- what the hell
- (deyim) Said when you suddenly realize that your plan is not important to you and that you will do something else:
I was supposed to be working this evening but what the hell; I'll see you in the pub in half an hour.
- Hell of
- hella
- Hella
- Any of various place names
- Hella
- A female given name, see Helen
- Hellish
- helly
- hella
- Very, an intensifier of adjectives in their non-comparative form
- hella
- For sure, used to affirm what was just said
- hella
- A replacer of "a lot" or "helluv a lot"
- hella
- Really, an intensifier of verbs
- hellish
- as in hell, very awful
- hellish
- emphasis You describe something as hellish to emphasize that it is extremely unpleasant. The atmosphere in Washington is hellish. extremely bad or difficult
- hellish
- Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical
- hellish
- very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"
- hellish
- {s} horrible, dreadful, diabolical, accursed, monstrous
- hellish
- extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
- hellishly
- In a hellish manner
- hellishly
- infernally: extremely; "infernally clever"; "hellishly dangerous"
- hellishly
- dreadfully, horribly
- hellishness
- The property of being hellish