[pel-mel] 
| 1. | in disorderly, headlong haste; in a recklessly hurried manner. |
| 2. | in a confused or jumbled mass, crowd, manner, etc.: The crowd rushed pell-mell into the store when the doors opened. |
| 3. | indiscriminate; disorderly; confused: a pell-mell dash after someone. |
| 4. | overhasty or precipitate; rash: pell-mell spending. |
| 5. | a confused or jumbled mass, crowd, etc. |
| 6. | disorderly, headlong haste. |
| pell-mell also pell·mell (pěl'měl') adv.
[French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle mesle, probably reduplication of mesle, imperative of mesler, to mix; see meddle.] pell'-mell' adj. & n. |
In a confused, disorderly manner: “After the assembly, the students ran pell-mell from the auditorium.”
