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English
Etymology
From Mc- + hell.
Proper noun
McHell
- (slang, derogatory) McDonald's (the fast food restaurant chain).
1996 April 16, Ashley Jones, “WTD: 1998 Teenie Beanies”, in alt.food.mcdonalds (Usenet):I work at McHell and I could have all the beanie babies I want...In fact I do, I have three unopened sets from the last promotion.
1997 June 15, Ken Beard, “does making the big mac?”, in alt.food.mcdonalds (Usenet):BTW, I worked at McHell from '86 til '96. Caught the tail end of the good McD's and saw them sink slowly down to their current sad state.
2000 October 23, Kirk Pearson, “They screw you at the Drivethrough (Moto related)”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet):During my time in McHell I disallowed DeLoreans […] , cars driving through backward […] , and people who thought they were at Wendy's […] , but I never disallowed motorcycles, or horses.
Noun
McHell (uncountable)
- (nonce word, humorous) Hell (used in allusion to the McDonald's brand or to similar large corporations).
1990 December 17, “The Promotion from McHell”, in Adweek, volume 40, A/S/M Communications, page 19:(title)
1994 March 30, Charlie X, “Screwing over your local McDonald's”, in Phrack Magazine, volume 5, number 45:There are infinite possibilities to create your local McDonald's an utter McHell. Don't consider it illegal (most of it isn't...) consider it more of a public service. Yeah... That's it.
1996 December 16, Holly Moore, “Houston”, in rec.food.restaurants (Usenet):I'm also of the opinion that McDonald's standards of operations have gone to McHell since Ray Kroc passed away.
1997, John Vidal, Mclibel, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 17:For the corporation, still insisting that the trial is not about freedom of speech but about the right to stop people telling lies, it is McHell.