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hellacious, a. (and adv.) U.S. slang.|hɛˈleɪʃəs|
[f. hell n. or hell- (after hellish, helluva, etc.) + -acious; cf. bodacious a.]
Terrific, tremendous; remarkable, enormous. Also as quasi-adv.
1934Amer. Speech IX. 289/1 Hellacious, outstanding. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §20/9 Great; considerable in degree,..grand, hellacious. 1943Sat. Even. Post 23 Oct. 20/3 A sample of Johnston dialogue runs, ‘We saw this little old airfield the Japs were using, so we gave it a strictly hellacious pasting.’ 1976Business Week (Industrial ed.) 4 Oct. 38e/2 The CB industry is in a ‘hellacious slump’. 1981Amer. Banker 5 June 2/1 ‘There was a hellacious turnout,’ recalled Mr. Ford of the election, ‘and that's what really killed us.’ 1986R. J. Conley Back to Malachi vii. 45 He came down with a hellacious loud stomp, still hanging on to his left foot with his right hand. 1991Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 1/1 During the heaviest ground fighting of the war so far, described by one American commander as ‘hellacious’, at least 12 American Marines were killed and two injured when two light armoured vehicles were hit. |