[
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
- His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous.
- And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
- Nature has been killing helter-skelter, indiscriminately and massively forever. AlaskaDispatch.com: Massive Bird, Fish Kills in Alaska -- No One Noticed
- It was a mess of homey flowers planted without a plan but blooming cheerily from their helter-skelter place.
- Somebody has to get slain in the helter-skelter of this combat.
- Giggling, his friend Brent ran helter-skelter beside him.
- I was spewing up iced-coffee and chips after about fifty descents in a helter-skelter.
- Especially a side that was now moving through the gears and playing the game at a helter-skelter pace. The Sun
- In 1990, Ireland's GDP per head was 75 per cent of Belgium's but such has been the helter-skelter of the 1990s, we are now almost ten per cent richer.
- There's also story-telling, kids' craft activities, a Victorian helter-skelter and swingboats, a beer tent and local produce, food and drink.