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like heck

like heck prepositional phrase: minced form of like hell.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (emphatic, intensifier) minced form of like hell.
    • You'd better run like heck!

Questions about like heck

What does like heck mean?
Like heck means minced form of like hell.
What part of speech is like heck?
Like heck is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like heck in the dictionary

  1. like fun
  2. like fury
  3. like gangbusters
  4. like grease through a goose
  5. like grim death
  6. like heck
  7. like hell
  8. like hey-go-mad
  9. like hot cakes
  10. like I care
  11. like I cared

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