hell

1. (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.Examples: "My new boss is making my job a hell."; "I went through hell to get home today."; "callback hell; <table> hell; <div> hell"countableexcessivefiguratively

2. (countable) A place for gambling.Examples: "Here’s five-and-twenty for you. Don’t be losing it at the hells now."; "a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless"; "But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: [...] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; [...]"countable

3. (figuratively) An extremely hot place.Examples: "You don’t have a snowball's chance in hell."countablefigurativelyuncountable

4. (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.Examples: "She's got her arms down to her side, defiant. But just for the hell of it, she leans into him, wraps her arms around his neck, puts her head on his shoulder, and hangs on tight."; "I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore."; "What the hell is wrong with you?!"countablesometimesuncountablevulgar

5. (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.Examples: "This sturdy Squire, he had, as well As the bold Trojan Knight, seen Hell."countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)Examples: "That steep staircase is hell on my knees."colloquialcountableuncountableusuallywith-on

1. (no longer productive) Used to emphasize.Examples: "Hell yeah!"colloquialidiomaticsometimesvulgar

1. (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.Examples: "- Oh, aren't they sweet?"; "‘[…] I know whether a boy is telling me the truth or not.’ ‘Thank you, sir.’ Did he hell. They never bloody did."alt-ofalternativecolloquialnot-comparablepostpositionalsometimesvulgar

2. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.Examples: "That was hell good!"; "They're hell sexy."Synonyms: hellaAustraliaNew-Zealandcolloquialnot-comparablesometimesvulgar

1. (intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.Examples: "He was helling down the road with his radio blaring."colloquialintransitivesometimesvulgar

1. (rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).Examples: "To hell gold or gilt workː take two ounces of tartar, two ounces of sulfur.. and it will give it a fine luster."colloquialraresometimesvulgar