Usually means: Very impressive or good; remarkable.
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  1. heckuva: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. heckuva: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Heckuva, heckuva: Wordnik
  4. heckuva: Wiktionary
  5. heckuva: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. heckuva: Dictionary.com
  7. heckuva: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. heckuva: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Heckuva: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Heck of a; extreme.

Similar:
helluva, helluv, balls-out, gone, awful, hellacious, full-on, ultrahot, fierce, high voltage, more...

Opposite:
mediocre, ordinary, unremarkable, average

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Similar:
helluva, helluv, balls-out, gone, awful, hellacious, full-on, ultrahot, fierce, high voltage, more...

Opposite:
mediocre, ordinary, unremarkable, average



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