Jan 26, 2026
Hella.o
is a colloquial intensifier meaning "very" or "a lot," strongly associated with —especially the —and attested in local speech since at least the 1970s . Linguists, dictionaries and journalistic accoun...
Sociolinguistic Fieldwork in the 1990s
Sociolinguistic fieldwork documented the use of 'hella' among Bay Area youth across racial and socioeconomic lines in the early 1990s.