Adverb
the heck
(euphemistic) Used for emphasis after an interrogative word.
What the heck are you doing?
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them. Kurt Vonnegut
I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes. Patricia Heaton
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer. Larry Wall
Paul Gauguin asked, "Whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I came from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! See ya later!.. Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway? Bill Watterson
People would have said the same thing to Jesus, 'Who the heck are you? You're a carpenter's son. David Icke
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. Isabel Allende