hell week

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hell week (plural hell weeks)

  1. (chiefly US, idiomatic) The week during which new members are required to undergo undignified rites of initiation or gruelling discipline in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, secret society, military group, etc.
  2. (chiefly US) In a college or university, the week leading up to final examinations.
    • 1991, James K. Semones, Effective Study Skills: A Step-by-step System for Achieving Student Success, page xvii:
      As a college freshman, this was vividly impressed on me during my first exposure to hell week. Hell week is the term many students use in reference to what professors and other college officials call final exam week.
    • 2002, Paul Laska, Four Years, page 147:
      I finished my exam and handed it to the grad assistant at the front row. […] I had finished Hell Week! Winter break has officially begun.

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  • hell week”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.