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helluva

1910, attempt to represent the casual pronunciation of expression hell of a _____, which is attested from 1776 (see hell).

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helluva

a. (context colloquial English) hell of a; extreme

Usage examples of "helluva".

Not just our honchos, our honchos have to consult with the honchos from all the operating companies because they own a helluva lot of the switches you want to diddle with.

I admit to having been in the killing business for a while, in Indochina, I am now back in the helluva story business.

The female Domme with a male slave is really big in Hong Kong, and we got a helluva Domme in April.

But that amalgamates a helluva lot of gold, Alex—up to fifty pounds of it.

I sure had a helluva lot more time for three ack emma discussions back then, and a lot more energy.

Half the time, if you really want to know the truth, when I'm horsing around with a girl, I have a helluva lot of trouble just finding what I'm looking for, for God's sake, if you know what I mean.

While it might have been laudable of the Founding Fathers to wish to preserve the entire valley as it was when Man first landed, it must have given the architects and construction crews a helluva lot of trouble.

It's a helluva squeeze and a big load, what with knapsacks and fire-brooms and a big pile of pre-soaked hessian bags and the tanks carrying four hundred gallons of water.

There wasn't a whole lot of funny stuff, but it was a helluva faculty.

But even if the strip is still friendly you can hit bumps or misjudge the flares or whatever, and there's a gentlemen's agreement - you're a helluva long way from any kind of medical aid out there so if you're trapped in the wreckage or it's on fire they just put a bullet in your head, like you do with horses.

I hired him as my own hotel house detective and believe me, it takes a helluva lot of trust to hire somebody for that job.

She'll be a helluva lot safer here than in Arizona, with all those airbases and hydroelectric dams.

But if the Hrrubans are alien to Doona, it'll explain a helluva lot of inconsistencies," and Ken ticked them off on his fingers.

It's a stupid disability and for a while it really fucked me up, but all it takes is one look at something like the crime scene laid out before me to realize that while I may not have been handed the best deal on the planet, it could've been a helluva lot worse.

By golly, the lie detectors know who's lying and who's telling the truth, and those old card machines know how the law runs on whatever the case is about, and they can find out a helluva sight quicker'n you can say habeas corpus what judges did about cases like that before.