heck
//hɛk//
Forms
- Plural
- hecks
- present (v1)
- heck
- past (v2)
- hecked
- past participle (v3)
- hecked
- present participle
- hecking
- 3rd person singular
- hecks
Definitions
1.Hell.
- You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
- "And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch.
2.The bolt or latch of a door.(informal)
3.A rack for cattle to feed at.(informal)
4.A door, especially one partly of latticework.(informal)
1.Hell.
- Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
1.to break, to destroy(informal)
2.to mess up(informal)
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4893
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English
From a euphemistic alteration of hell.