the hell

noun

informal + impolite

1

—used to make a statement or question more forceful

Let's get the hell out of here.

(chiefly US) They moved way the hell up north.

What the hell is going on?

2

—used to say in an angry and forceful way that one will not do something, does not agree, etc.

"It's your fault!" "The hell it is!"

Examples of the hell in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But the real stars are the survivors themselves, each one with a story charting a harrowing escape path from the hell of Holocaust-era Europe. —Malina Saval, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025

But the studio instrument left you thinking: What the hell is that sound? —Chris Willman, Variety, 13 May 2025

Kwan isn’t going to steal 70 bases like Lofton could, and Lofton didn’t have quite the unparalleled contact ability that Kwan does, but in their own ways, both frustrated the hell out of opposing pitchers. —Zack Meisel, New York Times, 12 May 2025

Brief yet dense and full of misanthropic humor, Portal holds the hell up nearly twenty years later. —Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 6 May 2025

Rhymes for the hell

• barbell
• bedwell
• befell
• bluebell
• bombshell
• bridewell
• capelle
• cartel
• carvel
• clamshell
• cogswell
• compel