Definitions for helter-skelter

helter-skelter hel·ter-skel·ter

Spelling: [hel-ter-skel-ter]
IPA: /ˈhɛl tərˈskɛl tər/

Helter-Skelter is a 14 letter English word.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in helter-skelter (-eeeehkllrrstt).

Definitions for helter-skelter

noun

  1. tumultuous disorder; confusion.

adverb

  1. in headlong and disorderly haste:
  2. in a haphazard manner; without regard for order:

adjective

  1. carelessly hurried; confused:
  2. disorderly; haphazard:

Origin of helter-skelter

1585-95; rhyming compound, perhaps based on *skelt, Middle English skelten to hasten (h parallel to hubble-bubble, higgledy

Examples for helter-skelter

Nobody but he could have twisted and turned in such a helter-skelter fashion.

helter-skelter the men rushed out, Tony and his mates in front.

In the helter-skelter to the rear he had escaped by the Rossville road.

There has never been about them the slightest trace of hustle or helter-skelter.

She flung off her coat in a helter-skelter way, and rolled up her sleeves.

But this cannot be done by helter-skelter or haphazard administration.

helter-skelter, anyhow, without regard to order or precedence.

And how did the incubators and the helter-skelter and the midgets suit the taste of ye?'

Sometimes, but not very often, she threw them helter-skelter about the room.

I only know we ran quickly, helter-skelter, back home, back to Mazapevka.

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