0 an expression of usually slight anger or surprise, or a way of adding force to a statement, question, etc.:
1 an expression of annoyance or surprise, or a way of adding emphasis to a statement or question; hell:
Where the heck have you been?
One does not have wages just for the heck of it; one has wages to keep one's wife and family.
A captain is no longer the lord and master and able to do what the heck he likes.
My certainty is that there is a heck of a shortage of medicines, and large number of babies are dying.
The victims of their crimes must have wondered what the heck was going on; their taxes were paying for those junkets.
We can debate what the figure should be, and work it out, but a heck of a lot of people are involved.
Who the heck believes that anyone in docklands built a flat for £300,000?
The trend in that respect is encouraging, but we have one heck of a long way to go.
A heck of a lot of the cash that has been passed on to local authorities for council housing comes from the benefit scheme.
