Citations:hella

Adverb: intensifier, very

 * 1) 1998 -- South Park -- "Spookyfish"
 * Cartman uses the word "hella" repeatedly, and his friends keep yelling at him to stop.
 * 1) 2001 -- Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity by Ann Arnett Ferguson (page 140)
 * My freedom had been ripped away from me for twelve hours.
 * With four other women
 * with a bunk bed
 * (the mattress way maybe a inch
 * as thick as that table
 * with a wool blanket that woulnd't even cover my feet)
 * on a steel bunk
 * the windows all the way up to the ceiling
 * you couldn't
 * see outside
 * and it was hella cold in that cell.

A great many

 * 1) 2000 -- The 2nd Second by Leonardo DeSanctis (page 124)
 * We spent the fourth of July in San Francisco hanging out on the Haight and watching the fireworks in Golden Gate Park. There were hella people.
 * 1) 2004 -- Da Joka by Timesha Fulton
 * "...we saw all those different kinds of bongs and shit in the window." "Oh Yeah! I remember like Alice in Wonderland right. What that caterpillar was smoking with. Remember we saw one of those too? Where hella people can all smoke at once."