Definitions for Heck

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Heck heck

Spelling: [hek]

IPA: /hɛk/

Heck is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in Heck (cehk).

Definitions for Heck

noun

1. something remarkable of its kind (usually used in the phrase heck of a):
2. a comblike attachment on a loom, for guiding the warp threads as they are dressed for the warp beam.
3. a device that guides yarn onto the bobbin of a spinning wheel.
4. a gridlike arrangement of glass or metal rods below the hooks on a Jacquard loom, used for lifting all harness eyes equally or evenly.

Idioms

1. as heck, (used as a mild intensifier):

interjection

1. (used as a mild expression of annoyance, rejection, disgust, etc.):

Origin of Heck

First recorded in 1850-55; euphemistic alteration of hell

Examples for Heck

Washington is a heck of a lot better as a result, and will be for years to come.

A mixtape dubbed “Montage of heck” has surfaced on the site Live Nirvana!

heck, research shows that a little bit of Viagra will even help cut flowers stand up straighter for as long as a week.

heck, she did it in such a way that I couldn't help ogling a bit myself.

After what one cop called “a heck of a fuss,” they finally managed to print her.

Like to see Vedrines fly, and the Louvre and the gay grisettes too by heck!

Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhy where the heck did you come from?

Music and refresh––no, by heck, that sounds too wet and not solid enough.

At this point I stopped and asked myself what the heck I thought I was trying to do.

They just reflect the range of breeds that were used to create the heck cattle in the first instance.