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helter-skelter
[ hel-ter-skel-ter ]
adverb
- in headlong and disorderly haste:
The children ran helter-skelter all over the house.
- in a haphazard manner; without regard for order:
Clothes were scattered helter-skelter about the room.
adjective
- carelessly hurried; confused:
They ran in a mad, helter-skelter fashion for the exits.
Books and papers were scattered on the desk in a helter-skelter manner.
noun
- tumultuous disorder; confusion.
helter-skelter
/ ˈɛəˈɛə /
adjective
- haphazard or carelessly hurried
adverb
- in a helter-skelter manner
noun
- a high spiral slide, as at a fairground
- disorder or haste
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of helter-skelter1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of helter-skelter1
Example Sentences
This was a helter-skelter day, the breathless cricket picking up from the previous time these sides met on this ground - New Zealand's classic one-run victory at the beginning of last year.
How destructive his term will be remains unknowable, but his helter-skelter, vengeance-fueled approach to wielding power may have the ironic effect of impeding his ability to deliver on his more radical promises.
The conditions made for a helter-skelter session with drivers clearly struggling for grip on a track where F1 has not held a race for five years.
In the contemporary, helter-skelter sweep of Mexico City, there is one place — in the southern borough of Xochimilco — where a vision of a watery, pre-Columbian capital may still be imagined.
A breathless, helter-skelter second half saw Sarkic make a super diving save from Cannon to keep the Lions in the tie, before Watmore capitalised with a richly deserved goal.
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