Definition/Meaning of heck

• English - Interjection: heck (euphemistic) Hell . Heck , what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
• English - Noun: heck (uncountable) (euphemistic, uncountable) Hell . You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned. 2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 57: "And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch. heck (plural hecks) (informal) The bolt or latch of a door . (informal) A rack for cattle to feed at.…
• English - Verb: heck (third-person singular simple present hecks, present participle hecking, simple past and past participle hecked) (informal) to break , to destroy (informal) to mess up
• English - External links: heck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913 heck in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911 heck at OneLook Dictionary Search
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell . Etymology 2. Possibly supported by feck . Etymology 3. See hatch (“a half door”).