interjection
1.
(used as a mild expression of annoyance, rejection, disgust, etc.): What the heck do you care?
noun
Idioms 2.
something remarkable of its kind (usually used in the phrase heck of a ): That was a heck of an impressive speech. Have one heck of a good time.
3.
as heck, (used as a mild intensifier): I say he's guilty as heck.
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noun
1.
a comblike attachment on a loom, for guiding the warp threads as they are dressed for the warp beam.
2.
a device that guides yarn onto the bobbin of a spinning wheel.
3.
a gridlike arrangement of glass or metal rods below the hooks on a Jacquard loom, used for lifting all harness eyes equally or evenly.
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Heck
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| —interj | |
| a mild exclamation of surprise, irritation, etc | |
| [C19: euphemistic for hell] | |
| heck2 (hɛk) | |
| —n | |
| dialect (Northern English) a frame for obstructing the passage of fish in a river | |
| [C14: variant of | |
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Example sentences
Heck, even warm your ski boots and mittens while waiting in the lift line.
Heck, they don't even make bank buildings as large as they used to, another technology and cost savings driven decision.
Heck, it might be the best performance in several years.
Make a billion or a trillion, heck you will have earned it.
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