Usually means: Exceptionally good, bad, or intense.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word helluva:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. helluva: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. helluva: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. helluva: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Helluva, helluva: Wordnik
  5. helluva: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. helluva: Wiktionary
  7. helluva: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. helluva: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. helluva: Dictionary.com
  10. helluva: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Helluva (producer), Helluva: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. helluva: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. helluva: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. helluva: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. helluva: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (helluva)

▸ adjective:  (colloquial) (A) hell of a; extreme.
▸ adverb:  (colloquial); (expletive) (A) hell of a; extremely or very.

Similar:
heckuva, helluv, hellish, hellifying, hellacious, balls-out, gone, awful, full-on, ultra, more...

Opposite:
mediocre, ordinary, unremarkable, average

Types:
big, huge, great, large, enormous, giant, massive, more...

Phrases:
Helluva Boss, Helluva Band, more...

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Similar:
heckuva, helluv, hellish, hellifying, hellacious, balls-out, gone, awful, full-on, ultra, more...

Opposite:
mediocre, ordinary, unremarkable, average

Types:
big, huge, great, large, enormous, giant, massive, more...

Phrases:
Helluva Boss, Helluva Band, more...



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