heck

Definitions

1. The bolt or latch of a door.
   informal
2. Hell
3. Hell.
   euphemistic, uncountable
4. A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.
5. A surname, possibly from German.
6. A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
7. A rack for cattle to feed at.
   informal
8. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).
9. A door, especially one partly of latticework.
   informal, obsolete
10. to break, to destroy
11. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
    informal
12. to mess up
13. An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
    informal
14. The bolt or latch of a door
15. A bend or winding of a stream.
    informal

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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