[
US
/ˌhɛɫtɝˈskɛɫtɝ/
]
ADJECTIVE
- lacking a visible order or organization
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with undue hurry and confusion
a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause
a pell-mell dash for the train
ADVERB
-
haphazardly
the books were piled up helter-skelter
How To Use helter-skelter In A Sentence
- There is an internal process that we go through, but it is kind of helter-skelter, in a good way. Restaurant Reviews
- Also, you have to bear in mind that a pullout cannot just be a chaotic one, a helter-skelter.
- In a bid to create a rival attraction to the London Eye and the Manchester Wheel, Ulverston Town Council decides to convert the monument into a helter-skelter.
- Vehicles coming in the gates are checked for bombs, and white U.N. vehicles, mostly Toyota 4Runners, are parked helter-skelter around a dirt lot.
- Just when you think that there is nothing that can surprise you any more in the crazy helter-skelter world that is Scottish football, along comes an event which makes your jaw drop.
- A helter-skelter first half wasn't finished yet. Times, Sunday Times
- Off the pitch, O'Sullivan leads a quiet life away from the helter-skelter of international rugby.
- The game continued at a helter-skelter pace, amid which Phil Vickery emerged from the replacements' bench to the loudest cheer of the afternoon.
- Inevitably you pay a price for treating the novel as helter-skelter melodrama.
- He now faces another crisis in his helter-skelter existence.