Adverb
(euphemistic) The devil.
She can go to the dickens for what she said.
Used as an intensifier.
Why the dickens did he do that?
It is cold as the dickens out here!
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. William Shakespeare
We've gone from a representative democracy to a monarchy, and the most appalling thing is – even conservatives just hope like the dickens the next king is a good one. Ann Coulter
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine
Jeeves," I said, and I am free to admit that in my emotion I bleated like a lamb drawing itself to the attention of the parent sheep, "what the dickens is all this? P. G. Wodehouse
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too. Jane Smiley
For one weekend only, Sept. 4-7, the Dickens Parlour Theatre will host Neil Simon’s comedy “The Sunshine Boys,” which celebrates the best in classic sketch comedy, with beloved characters from the Vaudeville era. Source: Internet