Meaning of helter-skelter | Babel Free

Definitions

In confused, disorderly haste.

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Examples

“The winds knocked huge trees helter-skelter all over my garden.”

“But the butterflies were dead. A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor, now lost behind a furze bush, then off again helter-skelter in a broiling sun.”

“Pellets, once released from the funnel, would bounce helter-skelter, left or right, against the pins […] to ultimately gather in the lower compartments in a pile which resembles a normal curve.”

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