Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hell-in, the adj.

(S.Afr.) furious, angry.

[SA]L.G. Berger Where’s the Madam? 97: Sometimes when I get the hell-in with Silence, we have a fearful row which seems to clear the air.
[SA]A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act I: You’re the hell-in. Don’t look at me, ou ding. Blame the whiteman. Bulldozer!
[SA] informant in DSAE (1996).
[SA]Sun. Times (Johannesburg) 13 Sept. 23: If they install parking meters, everybody is going to be the hell in.
[NZ]Style Feb. 41: God’s the hell in with the Boere nation, who pray like Pharisees but never stop bickering.