Wiktionary
prep.phr. (context intensifier English) minced form of like hell.
Usage examples of "like heck".
Or more likely-and more troubling-a bounty hunter like Heck himself, seeking the reward money.
It'd be like Heck himself standing up and with full intent walking right toward someone threatening to shoot him in the leg again.
And they still ached like heck, and burned where the hide had come off.
It's when you hit ninety, ninety-five, a hundred, that you're far-traveling like heck.
Every two weeks, we set out big blue blocks of rat bait and hoped like heck.
But it's a sure thing he don't do us any good because a piece off one of them shells he throws up at us opens a hole in our main gas tank, and we fly like heck for home, but we're way off our course and not exactly sure where we are, on account of it being very cloudy and us being excited.