heller

Meaning

Noun

• A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire.
• A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna.
• A noisy, rowdy, troublesome person; hellion.

Origin

• Borrowed from German Heller. halier.
• 1890–95, Americanism; short for hell-raiser