dickens

noun

1. 1

   The devil.

   She can go to the dickens for what she said.

   You scared the dickens out of me.

   “Four weeks ago, I was sitting down for breakfast with my beautiful wife, Evie. Evie and I were sitting down with our two beautiful little boys, Connor and C-C-- Cah-- ristopher, and Christopher looks up to me-- he's six years old and full of the dickens--”

2. 2

   A disturbance or row.

   Hugh considered saying, Then I guess I'll just have to kick you a few times instead, you frog son of a bitch. Then he thought of that fat bastard Keeton, handing him a pink slip for kicking up dickens in the local tavern.

   And lastly, thanks to my children, Dutch and Tallulah, for allowing me to see the magic of everything I love about popular culture anew through their eyes. This one is for you two dickens!

3. 3

   Used as an intensifier in the phrase the dickens; see that entry.

   Why the dickens did he do that?

   We had the dickens of a row.