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What the hell?
What (in) the hell?
1. Inf. What has happened?; What? What in the hell? Who did this? What the hell happened here?
2. Inf. What does it matter? Why not? (Usually with the force of an exclamation.) Give her a new one. What the hell! Don't be such a cheapskate. Get the nice one. What the hell!