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Hella
DEFINITION:
Perhaps the Bay Area's most famous contribution to the English language, it is a general intensifier that can refer to the quantity or degree of something. Short for "hell of a lot of". Immortalized in the Bay Area, but has spread all over the country in usage.
PART(S) OF SPEECH:
noun
,adjective
,adverb
EXAMPLE(S):
Livin like a baller loc
Havin money, and blowin hella chronic smoke
--Snoop Dogg, "Murder was the Case"
745 outside
Rims hella big
When I drive by
Make them haters hella sick
Seat laid back
Puffin on hella dro
Cup filled up
Sippin on hella trone
Hella high in the sky
I'm hella gone
--Ya Boy, "Hella"
- PRIMARY ORIGIN:
- United States >
- California >
- Northern California
- City: The Bay Area
