heck

Interjection

1. (euphemistic) Hell.
   • Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.

Noun (1)

heck (uncountable)

1. (euphemistic) Hell.
   • 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.2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 57

   Synonyms:

   under hell

Verb

heck (third-person singular simple present hecks, present participle hecking, simple past and past participle hecked)

1. (informal) to break, to destroy

   Synonyms:

   fuck, bork

2. (informal) to mess up

Noun (2)

heck (plural hecks)

1. (informal) The bolt or latch of a door.
2. (informal) A rack for cattle to feed at.
3. (informal, obsolete) A door, especially one partly of latticework.
4. (informal) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. (informal) An 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. (informal) A bend or winding of a stream.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Heck

Heck

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.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Heck

Heck

1. A surname, possibly from German.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Heck

Heck

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).