Word info Synonyms

helluva

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1. helluva - Adjective

2. helluva - Adverb

Meaning

helluva (not comparable)

(colloquial) (A) hell of a; extreme.
They had a helluva row over where to spend the weekend.
Where were you? - Lost in Paris. - Wow! Helluva place to get lost!

helluva (not comparable)

(colloquial); (expletive) (A) hell of a; extremely or very.
We had a helluva good time at the party.

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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. Lucille Ball

I'm one helluva communicator. Howard Cosell

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no. Richard Branson

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs. Roger Maris

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight. Johanna Lindsey

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around. Harvey Milk

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