heck

• IPA^(key): /hɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

heck

1. (euphemistic) Hell.

   What the heck are you doing?

heck (uncountable)

1. (euphemistic) Hell.

   You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.

• See under hell.

• oh my heck

See hatch (“a half door”).

• hack

heck (plural hecks)

1. The bolt or latch of a door.
2. A rack for cattle to feed at.
3. A door, especially one partly of latticework.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. (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.
6. A bend or winding of a stream.

• at heck and manger

• heck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• heck in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• heck at OneLook Dictionary Search

• chek

heck

1. Imperative singular of hecken.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of hecken.

heck

1. Alternative form of hacche