as hell
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Postpositional, Vulgar To a great extent or degree; very.
- It's cold as hell in here!
- It was icy as hell on the road that morning, and as I put my brakes on, the van just kept going.
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- Kim's phony as hell.
- The neighbor's dog is loud as hell.
- With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Two thousand years of waiting for their Messiah, and they're still persistent as hell.2001, Dan Brown, Angels and Demons:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, hell.
- My Soul forſakes her vain Delight, / and bids the World farewel, / Baſe as the Dirt beneath my Feet, / And miſcheivous as Hell.1707, Isaac Watts, “Parting with Carnal Joys”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 87:
- Synonyms
- as, as all hell, as a motherfucker, as anything, as fuck, as heck, as shit
- Derived terms
- hot as hell
- Related terms
- as all hell