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thehell (notcomparable)

  1. (mildly vulgar)Used to indicateemphaticrejection of an assertion or request.
    Synonyms:like hell,the hell you say,(postpositional)hell
    A: I can run faster than a horse.
    B:The hell you can!
    • 1990, Stephen King,The Moving Finger:
      'You stay here, sir,' O'Bannion instructed.
      'The hell I will,' Feeney said.
  2. (mildly vulgar)Expletive used foremphasis, typically after aninterrogative term orrelative pronoun.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:the dickens
    Whatthe hell was that?
    • 1989 December 17, Christopher Wittke, “On The Edge In The '80s”, inGay Community News, volume17, number23, page11:
      D'Allesandro was particularly adept at that kind of flash-forward-then-backward-all-the-hell-over-the-place kind of narrative and like a tourist following a well-seasoned guide, you never lose track of the line.
    • 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis,Southern Daily Echo[1]:
      “Whoeverthe hell is running the place now has made a terrible mess of it,” he said... “Not in the sense that it looks different, or that it isn't pretty much permanently full. It's just that the food asgone utterly down the khazi.”

Translations

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indication of emphatic rejection of an assertion
expletive used for emphasis after an interrogative term

Interjection

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thehell

  1. (mildly vulgar)Ellipsis ofwhat the hell:anexclamation indicatingsurprise ordismay.

Pronoun

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thehell

  1. (mildly vulgar, slang, interrogative)Ellipsis ofwhat the hell:what.
    The hell is that?
    • 2023, James P. Sandoval, “Solomon's Solution”, inBut a Jape[3] (webcomic):
      The hell am I supposed to do with half a kid?
    • 2006 October 1,Dennis Lehane, “Refugees” (00:32:06), inThe Wire, season 4, episode 4:
      Wilson: He's right. They endorse Royce, fine,the hell else they gonna do?
    • 2024 May 16, very tall bart,[YTP]State of the Union[4], spoken by Jordan Peterson (Jordan Peterson):
      I’ll tell you a story.The hell's his name? Might beHerbert… Hitler came on me full force. And that was explosive.
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