English
heck
see also: Heck
Pronunciation Interjection
  1. (euphemistic) Hell.
    What the heck are you doing?
Translations Noun

heck (uncountable)

  1. (euphemistic) Hell.
    You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
Synonyms Noun

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.
  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.
Heck
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.
Proper noun
  1. Surname, possibly from German.
Proper noun
  1. A civil parish in Selby, North Yorkshire, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
  2. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).


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