heck

alternative hecc

1. euphemisticHell.

   Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.

alternative hecc

1. euphemisticuncountableHell.

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

   1 more example

   "And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch.

   2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 57

   Synonyms: under hell

present singular third person hecks · participle present hecking · participle past hecked · past hecked · alternative hecc

1. informalto break, to destroy

   Synonyms: fuck, bork

2. informalto mess up

plural hecks · alternative hack · alternative hecc

1. informalThe bolt or latch of a door.
2. informalA rack for cattle to feed at.
3. informalobsoleteA door, especially one partly of latticework.
4. informalA latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. informalbusinessAn apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

   Synonyms: heck-box

6. informalA bend or winding of a stream.

1. 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.

plural Hecks

1. A surname, possibly from German.

1. A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
2. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).