hella
/ˈhelə
/informal
adverb [as submodifier]
Extremely (used for emphasis): I was hella mad...
- Everybody was super stoked, especially Judd who was skating hella hard.
- Sean wanted to take us to River Legacy park's kinked rail which was hella far away.
- They got off hella easy; some of them have art first period.
determiner
A large amount or number of: those songs don’t get hella airplay there would be hella people in the streets...
- We'd go around riding bikes, jump, hittin' hella jumps.
- I joined a couple crews and got hella fame.
- He was Hawaiian and Filipino with long hair and hella tattoos and he was all ripped, you know, super buff.
Origin
1980s: probably from helluva or hellacious.
- projectilist
- projection
- projectional
- projection booth
- projection box
- projection fiber
- projection fibre
- projectionism
- projectionist
- projection lens
- projection printer
- projection printing
- projection room
- projection rule
- projection system
- projection television
- projection test
- projection weld
- projection-welded
- projection welder
- projection welding
- projective
- projective geometry
- projective identification
- projectively