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the heck

adv

Definitions

  1. Used for emphasis after an interrogative word.

    • What the heck are you doing?

  2. Intensifies a phrasal verb

    Intensifies a phrasal verb; goes between the base verb and its modifier.

    • Elevators make me throw the heck up.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for the heck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA