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  1. (mildly, vulgar) Used as an intensifier to emphasize how unlikely something is.
    • As if having a copper rod you don't have a hope in hell of catching flying towards your face isn't traumatic enough, sometimes the teacher would introduce a second rod, so you had to both throw and catch at the same time. 2021, Sara Gibbs, Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels:
    • There's no way in hell will I be your family's housekeeper while your family has Mike and Mitch living here with them! 2013, Doris Miller, DIANE D: The Musical Drama, page 218:
    • I knew very well I had no chance in hell that I could handle this group of people definitively. 2009, Jan K. Herman, Navy Medicine in Vietnam, page 204: