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Definition 2024

like_hell

like ****

English

Prepositional phrase

(intensifier) In a manner that uses all of the strength, speed, or effort that a person can summon.
You'd better run like ****!
Used ironically to express the opposite of one's intentions
Me do the washing up? Like **** I will!
Bad or badly.

You look like ****!

It stank like **** down there!

Translations

Using all strength, speed, effort that one can summon

French: le diable aux trousses (fr), le diable aux cul, le diable aux chausses

Polish: jak diabli (pl), jak cholera (pl)

Expressing the opposite of one's intentions

French: putain que (fr) (non)

Spanish: a huevo (es) que (no)

See also

bat out of ****
like heck