Herc

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɝk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɜːk/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

Herc (plural Hercs)

1. Clipping of Hercules; A diminutive of the male given name Hercules.

Herc (plural Hercs)

1. (slang) A Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft.
   • 2017, Mark Bowen, The Telescope in the Ice:

     If a cargoid thinks she might need a big box-end wrench to open the cargo bay or disassemble a large piece of equipment that needs to be removed post-haste from the back of a "Herc" (Hercules transport plane, aka LC-130), she leaves it in the cab of the forklift that she races up to the back of the plane with.

• 'cher, Rech, ECHR, EHRC, Cher, cher

• IPA^(key): [ɦert͡s]

Herc m pers (female equivalent Hercová)

1. a male surname

• “Herc”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025