heck
Plural: hecks
Intj
- Hell.
Noun
- A mild expletive often used as a substitute for 'hell'.
- Hell.
- The bolt or latch of a door.
- A rack for cattle to feed at.
- A door, especially one partly of latticework.
- A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- A bend or winding of a stream.
Verb
- to break, to destroy
- to mess up
Examples
- Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
- Oh heck, I just missed that triple-word score for ’QUARTZ’!
- You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
Origin / Etymology
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
Scrabble Score: 13
heck: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordheck: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
heck: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
heck: valid Words With Friends Word