hell's kitchen

1. 1.

   a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice

   SynonymsHell's Half Acre

   Broadercity district

   Part ofManhattan

Questions about hell's kitchen

What does hell's kitchen mean?

hell's kitchen means "a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice".

What is another word for hell's kitchen?

Close synonyms include Hell's Half Acre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hell's kitchen a common word?

hell's kitchen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.