Usually means: Intense, stressful initiation or training.
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  1. hell week: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hell Week, hell week: Wiktionary
  3. hell week: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. hell week: Dictionary.com
  5. Hell Week (Scream Queens), Hell week: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hell Week)

noun:  (chiefly US, idiomatic) The week during which new members are required to undergo undignified rites of initiation or gruelling discipline in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, secret society, military group, etc.
noun:  (chiefly US) In a college or university, the week leading up to final examinations.
noun:  Alternative form of hell week [(chiefly US, idiomatic) The week during which new members are required to undergo undignified rites of initiation or gruelling discipline in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, secret society, military group, etc.]

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