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(figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.

A place for gambling.

(figuratively) An extremely hot place.

(sometimes vulgar) (Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.)

(obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.

In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

(colloquial) Something extremely painful or harmful (to).

(Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.)

(Used to emphasize.)

(Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.)

(Alternative form of 'the hell' or 'like hell'.)

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; (used to emphasize strongly).

To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell.

To hurry, rush.

To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

(rare, metal-working) To add luster to; to burnish (silver or gold).

(rare) To pour.