hella

THE REAL DEFINITION:

East Bay (Fremont/Hayward originally), early-mid 1980's. Original slang was "hecka" (a bastardization of the GREEK prefix "heka", meaning 100, or more generally, a large nonspecified quantity). So it originally had nothing to do with profanity/cursing. However, it was soon upgraded to "hella" by those who thought that it was somehow related to the word "heck".

My definition is hella sweet.

by Joel Day December 2, 2004

hella

Modifier, meaning either "very much" or "a large number of." A Bay Area (specifically East Bay) regionalism that dates from the mid-1970s, if not earlier, later popularized by the No Doubt song "Hella Good."

"I met this girl and she was hella fine and I tried to talk to her, but I'd drunk hella beers and was hella wasted." -- Actual quote spoken by East Bay high school student.

by Raider Nation O.G. May 2, 2006

hella fresh

Hella = TOTALLY!
Fresh = Rad, Amazin', SEXY, Awesome!

Whoa, check out that car, it's hella fresh!
Holly aint pretty fresh, she's HELLA FRESH!

by hellafresh November 5, 2008

hella fire

When something is very good.

"That weed we just smoked was hella fire." -Some Stoned Dude

"This chicken and rice is hella fire" -Me high.

by Arm May 30, 2006

hella

San Francisco Bay Area Slang. First became widely used during the early 1980's.

Became more mainstream after the band No Doubt's song entitled, "Hella Good" was released.

The term is shortened from "hell of" and most likely derived from "a hell of a lot of"

That party was hella fun!

We got hella hyphy last night.

That dude was hella old.

by Aeronius July 29, 2008

hellaballoo

to have much more of, an efficiant amount.

boys night out is a hellaballoo better then panic at the disco.

by corniellious philmore banks June 11, 2006

hellaluyeah

A loving shout of praise for any song by Long Beach CA born musical pioneers Sublime.

Hellaluyeah! They're gonna play that song about getting the Dalmatian high!

by Richard Martensten October 8, 2007