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adverb
1.
in headlong and disorderly haste: The children ran helter-skelter all over the house.
2.
in a haphazard manner; without regard for order: Clothes were scattered helter-skelter about the room.
adjective
3.
carelessly hurried; confused: They ran in a mad, helter-skelter fashion for the exits.
4.
disorderly; haphazard: Books and papers were scattered on the desk in a helter-skelter manner.
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Helter-skelter
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noun
5.
tumultuous disorder; confusion.
Origin:
1585–95; rhyming compound, perhaps based on *skelt, Middle English skelten to hasten (< ?); reduplication with initial h parallel to hubble-bubble, higgledy-piggledy, etc.
1585–95; rhyming compound, perhaps based on *skelt, Middle English skelten to hasten (< ?); reduplication with initial h parallel to hubble-bubble, higgledy-piggledy, etc.
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helter-skelter
1593, perhaps from skelte "to hasten, scatter hurriedly," with the first element merely for rhyme.
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