HELLA

adv.: really

West Coast Word Gnome has immersed himself in the rich and deep culture of the Bay Area and has begun to learn the language of the indigenous population. I have attended lectures at the Bay Area's finest university and have even managed to start a grass roots organization to ban the sale of burritos with beans. UC Berkeley scientists have determined that a total ban on the sale of beans (both pinto and "African American") will reduce total human assmissions by 42% in the Bay Area by 2026. Now if we could just get the super sexy hot windbags over at Code Pink to be seen and not heard and know their place, we could really make some progress. Anyway, back to this 'hella' bull$hit.

Here are some popular uses of the term 'hella', which will help you fit right in at any sunrise yoga session, wicca leadership conference or neo-troskyite transgender intra-uterine cambodian tupperware party:

1) "There are hella mixed-race couples around here!"
2) "This is a hella good conference on the hydroponics technology gap."
3) "Yo dude, that statement was hella gender normative. Now apologize."
4) "God DAMN! This burrito is so HELLA! WTF! Why are there hella hellacious hellacopters over my house?! HELLA!"
5) "$heee-it. These middle aged women really need to dye the hella out of their hair! Give them the right to vote and they really let themselves go!"