Sam Hill


nounSlang.
  1. hell (used especially in WH-questions as a mild oath expressing exasperation and usually preceded by in or the): Who in Sam Hill are you?

Origin of Sam Hill

1
1830–40, Americanism;Sam (originally salmon, variant of Sal(o)mon an oath) + hill, euphemism for hell

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How to use Sam Hill in a sentence

  • One day a neighbor came across Willie hustling like old Sam Hill to reload a wagon of hay which had overturned.

    Jiglets | Walter Jones
  • One afternoon, I heard her giving him a Sam Hill of a blow-up and met him in the hall soon afterward.

    Jiglets | Walter Jones
  • The bear he laughed hearty 'n scratched the ground like Sam Hill, 'n flung the dirt higher'n his head.

    Eben Holden | Irving Bacheller
  • I hope you will get your education as cheap as you can, for it cramps your mother and me like Sam Hill to put up the money.

    Remarks | Bill Nye
  • I do everything not to disturb herand here you crazy young-ones are raising particular Sam Hill out there in that open lot!

    The Girls of Central High | Gertrude W. Morrison