| Pronunciation: | | 'heltur 'skeltur
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- [adv] haphazardly; "the books were piled up helter-skelter"
- [adj] with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train"
- [adj] lacking a visible order or organization
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| | Synonyms: | | chaotic, disorganised, disorganized, every wich way, hurried, pell-mell |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hel"ter-skel"ter\, adv. [An onomat?poetic word.
Cf. G. holter-polter, D. holder de bolder.]
In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose;
irregularly. [Colloq.]
Helter-skelter have I rode to thee. --Shak.
A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof.
--J. C.
Harris.
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| | Related Terms: | | a corps perdu, ado, airily, all over, all over hell, amain, anarchic, any old way, any which way, anyhow, apace, arsy-varsiness, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, at once, balled up, bollixed up, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bunglingly, bustle, by forced marches, capriciously, carelessly, casually, chaotic, chaotically, clumsily, clutter, commotion, confused, cursorily, dash, desperately, disregardfully, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drive, dustup, embroilment, erratically, every which way, expeditiously, farrago, feverishly, flurry, flutter, foofaraw, forgetfully, fouled up, fracas, free-for-all, furiously, fuss, galley-west, hand over fist, haphazardly, happen what may, harum-scarum, hash, hassle, haste, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, higgledy-piggledy, hit and miss, hit or miss, hodgepodge, holus-bolus, hotfoot, hotheadedly, hubbub, hugger-mugger, hurriedly, hurry, hurry-scurry, hustle, hysteron proteron, immediately, impetuously, impulsively, in a jumble, in a mess, in a muddle, in confusion, in disarray, in disorder, in passing, inattentively, inconsiderately, inconsistently, inconstantly, instantly, irregularly, jumble, jumbled, like crazy, like mad, litter, madly, melee, mess, messily, mishmash, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, nonuniformly, offhand, offhandedly, on the run, once over lightly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, pell-mell, perfunctorily, pother, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, promiscuously, promptly, quickly, race, racket, ramble-scramble, rampage, recklessly, regardlessly, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, rush, scamper, scattered, scramble, screwed up, scurry, scuttle, shindy, skimble-skamble, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, sloppily, snafu, spasmodically, speedily, sporadically, stir, superficially, swiftly, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, to-do, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumble, tumult, turmoil, unequally, unevenly, unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, unholy mess, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unsteadily, unsystematically, unthinkingly, ununiformly, unvigilantly, unwarily, uproar, upside-down, wantonly, welter, wildly, willy-nilly, with a rush, with all haste, with dispatch, with haste |
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