It can be either a curse word, like "What the h*** does that mean?" Or it can be used to describe a place of great pain, believed to be the opposite of heaven where people who do not believe in Christ go.
There are things you can do to deflect people who bully: Act more confident. If a person who bullies feels that they don't have any power over you, it takes the 'fun' out of it for them . Hang around...
"What the hell?" is an expression of confusion, bemusement, shock, surprise, etc. It expresses even a second level of confusion, because it is a sentence fragment rather than a complete question,...