hellacious

hellacious

1. slang Awful. Traffic is just hellacious, so I'm probably going to be late to dinner. The rest of this gardening is going to have to wait—I can't stand this hellacious heat for much longer.
2. slang Exceptional or impressive. Have you been to Brandon's new place? Dude, it’s a hellacious penthouse!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hellacious

(hɛlˈeʃəs)
1. mod. terrible. The heat was hellacious, and the mosquitoes wouldn’t leave us alone.
2. mod. wild; excellent. (Use caution with hell.) What a hellacious good time we had!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • go for (something)
  • go for it
  • cut (one) off at the pass
  • cut off at the pass
  • got
  • go well with
  • go well with (someone or something)
  • get going
  • get someone going
  • going to (do something)
References in periodicals archive
As a bankruptcy lawyer with McKoos Smith told Reuters, "It's a hellacious problem.
"I was hitting him with some hellacious shots," said Eubank.
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The younger generation knows modern plastics can be hellacious strong and molded to very precise dimensions.
Given "Sons of Anarchy" creator Kurt Sutter's let's-get-medieval sensibilities, the wedding of his knack for dark and violent material with an early 14-century setting sounds like a match made in a hellacious Heaven.
Whatever their preference or knowledge about the issue, however, Raab says the broad swath of software solutions has made for a "hellacious mess" in terms of implementation and integration, because too many systems need to talk to one another.
As Dirk put it, "It was a top priority on my bucket list." The ground was a hellacious investment, no doubt, but worth every penny in his book.
The Great Concavity serves another purpose, however, supplying power to the United States through a newly-developed process called "annular fusion" (64), a complex and highly recursive technology in which power plants in the Concavity paradoxically use toxic waste to create energy that aids in the consumption of toxic waste, a process that itself results in more toxic waste that is then used to create energy and on again through the loop--constantly creating "like hellacious amounts of highly poisonous radioactive wastes" (571) as one ETA student explains.
Also called Thunder and Lightning, both Derek and Ron achieved fame for their hellacious dunks and super fast speed that left all the other players in their dust.
To focus attention first on society's nonpersons is the most effective way to expose the suffering nature of the social system as a whole--the hellacious karma of self-centered thought, action, and consequent suffering operative in all who participate in the system.
In my memory, every phase of life is up and down--there are times you remember that were just hellacious and you just wanted everything to be different, you wanted everything to change, and you wanted to be older, or you never wanted to grow up.
Thank heavens that Ed Jared wrote down his sentimental and hellacious journey.
Darlington's Hall showed thudding power and an unflinching will to win when he captured the vacant title in Leeds last December, coming through 12 hellacious rounds to beat South African southpaw Vusi Malinga on unanimous points.
Later that year, Mexican counter-puncher Juan Manuel Marquez dealt Pacquiao a hellacious sixth-round knockout in their fourth fisticuff.
While Montanus and others portrayed inquisitors as shadowy robed monks devilishly chanting Latin in gothic halls, this was more Hollywood than hellacious reality.