helter-skelter

ˌhɛltɚˈskɛltɚ

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#1·6h ago

(chiefly, _, British) An amusement ride consisting of a slide that spirals down around the exterior of a tapering central tower.

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#2·6h ago

In confused, disorderly haste.

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

Origin: In form a reduplication (similar to hurry-scurry and harum-scarum, both with initial /h-/ and /sk-/); perhaps based on ("to hasten; to raise an alarm"), or maybe related to from , employed as a fossil word. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#3·6h ago

hurried and confused.

After World War II, from 1945 until the early 1960s, the helter-skelter growth of the reprint industry went largely unheeded by the general publishing industry, then under its own mounting pressures to publish new works for a growing rea…

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