hell west and crooked
/hɛl wɛst ənd ˈkɹʊkɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When he and Bob knocked Steelman′s plans hell west and crooked after that yellow skunk George Doble betrayed me to Brad, the boy lost his boots in the brush."
- "“ You see, Parson Brown, your stock is all mixed in and scattered hell-west and crooked ways, so you′ll jest have to pick out what′s handy. Is that all right ? ”"
- "24 October 1934 — Wednesday Mustering the plant horses all day. Now we have stopped shooting they are scattering about Hell West and Crooked."
- "2005, Private Albert Franklin Edwards (Canadian Infantry), Two Years in the Ypres Salient, Henry L. Fox (editor), What the Boys Did Over There: Allied Overseas Stories, page 53, When it was exploded it blew up the entire town and also blew 61000 Huns “Hell, west and crooked.”"
- "Unfortunately Les arrived by 4WD to check up on our progress, only to find most of us sound asleep in the shade. He gave us a good revving and sent us hell, west and crooked to forage for bush tucker."
- "They then scattered half a dozen scraggy chooks hell, west and crooked."
Usage
- Australian usage
- American usage