"what the" meaning in English

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        "2": "what the hell"
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      "expansion": "what the hell",
      "name": "m"
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  "etymology_text": "From various expressions such as what the hell by aposiopesis.",
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      "form": "what the …",
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        "canonical"
      ]
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      "args": {
        "head": "what the … ?"
      },
      "expansion": "what the … ?",
      "name": "en-interj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
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          "kind": "other",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English rhetorical questions",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, as realization dawns that he is turning into a donkey, in Pinocchio (motion-picture), spoken by Lampwick (Frankie Darrow), Burbank: Disney; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures",
          "text": "Hee haw! Did that come out of me? Oh! Huh? What the …? What's going on? Ahhh!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to express astonishment or incredulity, as a question or questioning of the situation at hand, without requiring any specific vulgarity as intensifier."
      ],
      "id": "en-what_the-en-intj-zlYSGbix",
      "links": [
        [
          "ellipsis",
          "ellipsis"
        ],
        [
          "astonishment",
          "astonishment#English"
        ],
        [
          "incredulity",
          "incredulity#English"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question#English"
        ],
        [
          "questioning",
          "questioning#English"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation#English"
        ],
        [
          "at hand",
          "at hand#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "by ellipsis",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by ellipsis) Used to express astonishment or incredulity, as a question or questioning of the situation at hand, without requiring any specific vulgarity as intensifier."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "what the fuck"
        },
        {
          "word": "what the heck"
        },
        {
          "word": "what the hell"
        },
        {
          "word": "what the hey"
        },
        {
          "word": "what the sam hill"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "expression of astonishment",
          "word": "gibaliw"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "expression of astonishment",
          "word": "c’est quoi ce délire ?!"
        },
        {
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "expression of astonishment",
          "word": "mąʼiísh óolyé!"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "what the"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "what the hell"
      },
      "expansion": "what the hell",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From various expressions such as what the hell by aposiopesis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "what the …",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "what the … ?"
      },
      "expansion": "what the … ?",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "what the fuck"
    },
    {
      "word": "what the heck"
    },
    {
      "word": "what the hell"
    },
    {
      "word": "what the hey"
    },
    {
      "word": "what the sam hill"
    }
  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English interjections",
        "English lemmas",
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        "English rhetorical questions",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, as realization dawns that he is turning into a donkey, in Pinocchio (motion-picture), spoken by Lampwick (Frankie Darrow), Burbank: Disney; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures",
          "text": "Hee haw! Did that come out of me? Oh! Huh? What the …? What's going on? Ahhh!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to express astonishment or incredulity, as a question or questioning of the situation at hand, without requiring any specific vulgarity as intensifier."
      ],
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        [
          "ellipsis",
          "ellipsis"
        ],
        [
          "astonishment",
          "astonishment#English"
        ],
        [
          "incredulity",
          "incredulity#English"
        ],
        [
          "question",
          "question#English"
        ],
        [
          "questioning",
          "questioning#English"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation#English"
        ],
        [
          "at hand",
          "at hand#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "by ellipsis",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by ellipsis) Used to express astonishment or incredulity, as a question or questioning of the situation at hand, without requiring any specific vulgarity as intensifier."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "expression of astonishment",
      "word": "gibaliw"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "expression of astonishment",
      "word": "c’est quoi ce délire ?!"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "expression of astonishment",
      "word": "mąʼiísh óolyé!"
    }
  ],
  "word": "what the"
}