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hel·lion

 (hĕl′yən)
n.
A mischievous, troublesome, or unruly person.

[Probably alteration (influenced by hell) of dialectal hallion, worthless person.]
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hellion

(ˈhɛljən)
n
informal US a rough or rowdy person, esp a child; troublemaker. Also called: heller
[C19: probably from dialect hallion rogue, of unknown origin]
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hel•lion

(ˈhɛl yən)

n.
a disorderly, troublesome, rowdy, or mischievous person.
[1835–45, Amer.; hell + -ion, as in rapscallion]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.hellion - a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he chased the young hellions out of his yard"
bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler - someone who deliberately stirs up trouble
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Jawn, did ye ever see a straighter-nosed gang of hellions in the days of your life?"
What a silky smooth hellion she was; and so com- posed and serene, when the cords all down my legs were hurting in sympathy with that man's pain.
She was some hellion, there on the top of the world, clawing and scratching tooth and nail--a regular she cat.
Those same factors are expected to shape the POC diagnostics/testing market for years to come as an aging world population grapples with the various hellions of maturity--namely, cardiac disease, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's.
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With no philosophical concepts, no historical framework, no educational basis, they understand, at their core, the value of a gun in-hand when hellions are knocking.
BMW's plan was to end this domination by the hellions from Stuttgart with what they hoped would be a midengined 911-killer.
Inelastic scattering of hellions from even-even stable samarium isotopes at 40.9 MeV.
Standout films from auteurs like Atom Egoyan ("Remember"), Guy Maddin ("The Forbidden Room"), Deepa Mehta ("Beeba Boys"), Patricia Rozema ("Into the Forest") and Bruce McDonald ("Hellions"), show it's impossible to fit even the most definitive local filmmakers into one particular box.
In Hellions seventeen year old Dora finds out that she is pregnant on Halloween.
As if that were not enough stress for Gabe, she also re-discovers the existence of the two Rephaim groups' common enemies: demons, gatekeepers and hellions.