Heck - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |hek|  American pronunciation of the word heck
Brit.  |hek|  British pronunciation of the word heck

interjection

- (euphemistic) Hell.
What the heck are you doing?

noun

- (euphemistic) Hell.
You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
- The bolt or latch of a door.
- A rack for cattle to feed at.
- A door, especially one partly of latticework.
- A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- A bend or winding of a stream.

Extra examples

...it looks like heck in that boy's bedroom...

Oh heck! I've lost my keys!

'Do you believe him?' 'Heck, no.'

It cost a heck of a lot of money.

Where the heck are we?

He sure as heck didn't tell me.

Oh heck, there's more!

Heck, if we are going there!

Not a heck of a lot of info, but a really cool idea.

A heck of a year, all things considered.

'Did he offer to pay for it?' 'Did he heck.'

It's rather expensive, but what the heck.

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