heccup.html - See: RAISE THE DEVIL or RAISE HECK or RAISE HOB or RAISE NED.

heccup.html - {n. phr.} 1. The worst or most unlucky thing about a trouble or accident; the part that is most regrettable. * /Andy lost his notebook, and the devil of it was that the notebook contained all his homework for the coming week./ * /When I had a flat tire, the devil of it was that my spare tire was flat too./ 2. Fun from doing mischief. - Used after "for". * /The boys carried away Miss White's front gate just for the devil of it./

heccup.html - {n. phr.} 1. The worst or most unlucky thing about a trouble or accident; the part that is most regrettable. * /Andy lost his notebook, and the devil of it was that the notebook contained all his homework for the coming week./ * /When I had a flat tire, the devil of it was that my spare tire was flat too./ 2. Fun from doing mischief. - Used after "for". * /The boys carried away Miss White's front gate just for the devil of it./

heccup.html - n.
1 (in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, orig. of 100 oxen.
2 any extensive sacrifice. [L hecatombe f. Gk hekatombe f. hekaton hundred + bous ox]

heccup.html - int.
colloq. a mild exclamation of surprise or dismay. [alt. f. HELL]

heccup.html - n.
Mus. a bass oboe. [G Heckelphon f. W. Heckel, 20th-c. Ger. instrument-maker]