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H-E-double-hockey-sticks
Meaning
- A cute way to say hell without actually using the swear word. It is favored by parents and people trying to avoid being crude.
Playful, censored
Used in a sentence
- What in the H-E-double-hockey-sticks are you doing in the mud?
- It is hot as H-E-double-hockey-sticks out here today.
- I do not care about that, go to H-E-double-hockey-sticks for all I care.
The backstory
This is a 20th-century invention that relies on spelling out hell and substituting the last three letters with the sport of hockey. It is a clever, childish way to bypass censorship.
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