Meaning

7 senses
  1. (euphemistic, uncountable)Hell.

    You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.

  2. (informal)The bolt or latch of a door.

  3. (informal)A rack for cattle to feed at.

  4. (informal)A latticework contrivance for catching fish.

  5. (informal)An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

  6. (informal)A bend or winding of a stream.

  7. (informal, obsolete)A door, especially one partly of latticework.

Examples

62 sentences
  1. Why the heck did you do this?

    Якого біса ти це зробив? — deniko

  2. What the heck?

    Якого біса? — deniko

    ruКакого черта? — odexed

    deWas zum Henker? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · Spamster · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. Where the heck does he work?

  4. What the heck are you doing?

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · smarisbird · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. Who the heck's book is this?

Translations

1 languages

Origin

Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of

Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.

See hatch (“a half door”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

heck — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto