Definition of helter-skelter in English:

helter-skelter

adverb & adjective ˌhɛltəˈskɛltəˌhɛltərˈskɛltər

In disorderly haste or confusion.
仓促杂乱的（地），混乱的（地）
as adjective the helter-skelter dash to unity
仓促匆忙的统一。
as adverb hurtling helter-skelter down the pavement
沿人行道慌张地往前狂奔。
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a helter-skelter ride and you can reach speeds of more than 10 knots in the process.
- Our minds don't work in a straight line, but rather more like a pinball machine, bouncing ideas off one another helter-skelter.
- Efforts to vaccinate the nation's children went forward immediately, in somewhat helter-skelter fashion, to beat the summer onset of the disease.
- Giggling, his friend Brent ran helter-skelter beside him.
- Tell them that you feel friendship is undervalued in this helter-skelter crazy materialistic world.
- A helter-skelter mix of documentary and music video, the film contextualises Vivaldi's life through The Four Seasons, the most recorded and popular classical music ever written.
- The stunningly modern helter-skelter overpasses seem rather incongruous with a melange of bikes and cars that follow a system of road safety entirely their own.
- 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.
- I smiled to myself as the wind blew tossing the leaves helter-skelter and making them dance like ballerinas, minus the tutus.
- We can not simply go out, helter-skelter, and try to transform the biosphere, transform this planet, without knowing what we're doing.
- Inevitably you pay a price for treating the novel as helter-skelter melodrama.
- He also noticed rumpled clothing all over the floor, and a number of ripped plastic packages lying helter-skelter on the carpet.
- 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.
- And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
- Approaching this year's jamboree in Gloucestershire, he is riding better than ever at 34, having put the brakes on a helter-skelter lifestyle.
- At times in this hectic, helter-skelter world, an unpretentious reminder of the obvious is in order, and Dick and Larry have done it here.
- Science seems to offer him a point from which to view the helter-skelter human sagas created by the phantasms of mind and emotion.
- Fans will face the usual scraping and scrimping and helter-skelter hunting for tickets.
- The game continued at a helter-skelter pace, amid which Phil Vickery emerged from the replacements' bench to the loudest cheer of the afternoon.
- Fellini's tale of a middle-aged woman sloughing off her inhibitions is a caprice of a piece, a helter-skelter slide through the stages of abandon.
Synonyms
headlong, pell-mell, hotfoot, post-haste, hastily, in a hurry, hurriedly, as fast as possible, as quickly as possible, at full speed, at full pelt, at full tilt, hell for leather, recklessly, precipitately, impetuously, impulsively, carelessly, heedlessly, wildly
informal like a bat out of hell, at a lick, like the wind, like greased lightning, like a bomb, like mad, like crazy, like blazes
British informal like the clappers, at a rate of knots, like billy-o
North American informal lickety-split
literary apace, hurry-scurry

noun ˌhɛltəˈskɛltəˌhɛltərˈskɛltər

1British A fairground amusement consisting of a tall spiral slide winding around a tower.
Example sentencesExamples
- Large, multi-coloured plastic chutes on the mound would make great helter-skelter slides.
- There are waltzers, dodgems, helter-skelters and one or two old fashioned merry-go-rounds with properly painted horses.
- There's a vast market, with traders clad in frock coats, a fairground with hurdy-gurdies and helter-skelters, an artificial ice rink and three outdoor stages full of choirs and bands.
- I was spewing up iced-coffee and chips after about fifty descents in 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.
- 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.
2in singular Disorder; confusion.
仓促杂乱的（地），混乱的（地）
the helter-skelter of a school day
仓促匆忙的统一。
Example sentencesExamples
- The object has been to trim some of the excesses indulged in during the helter-skelter of Celtic tiger times.
- That's the way it's supposed to be - an evolving drama with nuance, color, deliberate pacing, and bursts of action that take you away from the helter-skelter of our otherwise rush-rush worlds.
- Somebody has to get slain in the helter-skelter of this combat.
- Also, you have to bear in mind that a pullout cannot just be a chaotic one, a helter-skelter.
- And the band were rarely better than on this track, with its climb-the-ladder introduction that paused briefly before sending you off down their pop-rock helter-skelter.
- Only when I was outside again, in the mad helter-skelter of sound and light and asphalt, did I feel properly disgusted with my sentimentality and the way I'd laid myself open for the cameras.
- I must say that I find ‘Harmonica Dance’ more than just clever, and that ‘Clockwork’ merits more than description as another helter-skelter.
- His fast, free-wheeling style, is inspired lunacy, and his helter-skelter of a show promises the audience the ride of their lives.
- Other similar ideas slip down the lurid helter-skelter of modern life.
- 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.
- But why dwell on such things when the sun has returned with renewed resolve, teasing blooms from the helter-skelter of bare branches?
- Off the pitch, O'Sullivan leads a quiet life away from the helter-skelter of international rugby.
- The feeling at the pit now is that we have just gone through a helter-skelter of emotions and we need to put the men's needs first and have a period of stabilisation.

Origin

Late 16th century (as an adverb): a rhyming jingle of unknown origin, perhaps symbolic of running feet or from Middle English skelte 'hasten'.

pell-mell from Late Middle English:
People like words that combine two almost identical forms, like helter-skelter (late 16th century), mishmash (Late Middle English), namby-pamby, and wishy-washy (late 17th century)—and pell-mell. Its second element represents a form of French mesler ‘to mix’ (related to medley). The first part might be from pelle ‘shovel’, giving the sense ‘mixed together with a shovel’, but the simple love of rhyme may be the only explanation needed.

Rhymes

belter, delta, melter, pelta, Shelta, shelter, swelter, welter

Definition of helter-skelter in US English:

helter-skelter

adverb & adjectiveˌheltərˈskeltərˌhɛltərˈskɛltər

In disorderly haste or confusion.
仓促杂乱的（地），混乱的（地）
as adverb hurtling helter-skelter down the pavement
沿人行道慌张地往前狂奔。
as adjective she had blamed her grogginess on a helter-skelter lifestyle
Example sentencesExamples
- At times in this hectic, helter-skelter world, an unpretentious reminder of the obvious is in order, and Dick and Larry have done it here.
- 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.
- He also noticed rumpled clothing all over the floor, and a number of ripped plastic packages lying helter-skelter on the carpet.
- Fellini's tale of a middle-aged woman sloughing off her inhibitions is a caprice of a piece, a helter-skelter slide through the stages of abandon.
- I smiled to myself as the wind blew tossing the leaves helter-skelter and making them dance like ballerinas, minus the tutus.
- We can not simply go out, helter-skelter, and try to transform the biosphere, transform this planet, without knowing what we're doing.
- 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.
- The stunningly modern helter-skelter overpasses seem rather incongruous with a melange of bikes and cars that follow a system of road safety entirely their own.
- Fans will face the usual scraping and scrimping and helter-skelter hunting for tickets.
- Tell them that you feel friendship is undervalued in this helter-skelter crazy materialistic world.
- It's a helter-skelter ride and you can reach speeds of more than 10 knots in the process.
- Inevitably you pay a price for treating the novel as helter-skelter melodrama.
- And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
- Science seems to offer him a point from which to view the helter-skelter human sagas created by the phantasms of mind and emotion.
- The game continued at a helter-skelter pace, amid which Phil Vickery emerged from the replacements' bench to the loudest cheer of the afternoon.
- Efforts to vaccinate the nation's children went forward immediately, in somewhat helter-skelter fashion, to beat the summer onset of the disease.
- Approaching this year's jamboree in Gloucestershire, he is riding better than ever at 34, having put the brakes on a helter-skelter lifestyle.
- Giggling, his friend Brent ran helter-skelter beside him.
- A helter-skelter mix of documentary and music video, the film contextualises Vivaldi's life through The Four Seasons, the most recorded and popular classical music ever written.
- Our minds don't work in a straight line, but rather more like a pinball machine, bouncing ideas off one another helter-skelter.
Synonyms
headlong, pell-mell, hotfoot, post-haste, hastily, in a hurry, hurriedly, as fast as possible, as quickly as possible, at full speed, at full pelt, at full tilt, hell for leather, recklessly, precipitately, impetuously, impulsively, carelessly, heedlessly, wildly

nounˌheltərˈskeltərˌhɛltərˈskɛltər

1in singular Disorder; confusion.
仓促杂乱的（地），混乱的（地）
the helter-skelter of a school day
仓促匆忙的统一。
Example sentencesExamples
- I must say that I find ‘Harmonica Dance’ more than just clever, and that ‘Clockwork’ merits more than description as another helter-skelter.
- Also, you have to bear in mind that a pullout cannot just be a chaotic one, a helter-skelter.
- Other similar ideas slip down the lurid helter-skelter of modern life.
- The object has been to trim some of the excesses indulged in during the helter-skelter of Celtic tiger times.
- His fast, free-wheeling style, is inspired lunacy, and his helter-skelter of a show promises the audience the ride of their lives.
- Somebody has to get slain in the helter-skelter of this combat.
- The feeling at the pit now is that we have just gone through a helter-skelter of emotions and we need to put the men's needs first and have a period of stabilisation.
- 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.
- Off the pitch, O'Sullivan leads a quiet life away from the helter-skelter of international rugby.
- That's the way it's supposed to be - an evolving drama with nuance, color, deliberate pacing, and bursts of action that take you away from the helter-skelter of our otherwise rush-rush worlds.
- Only when I was outside again, in the mad helter-skelter of sound and light and asphalt, did I feel properly disgusted with my sentimentality and the way I'd laid myself open for the cameras.
- But why dwell on such things when the sun has returned with renewed resolve, teasing blooms from the helter-skelter of bare branches?
- And the band were rarely better than on this track, with its climb-the-ladder introduction that paused briefly before sending you off down their pop-rock helter-skelter.
2British A tall spiral slide winding around a tower at a fair.
〈英〉（娱乐场中围绕高塔的）旋转滑梯
Example sentencesExamples
- There's a vast market, with traders clad in frock coats, a fairground with hurdy-gurdies and helter-skelters, an artificial ice rink and three outdoor stages full of choirs and bands.
- I was spewing up iced-coffee and chips after about fifty descents in 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.
- There are waltzers, dodgems, helter-skelters and one or two old fashioned merry-go-rounds with properly painted horses.
- 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.
- Large, multi-coloured plastic chutes on the mound would make great helter-skelter slides.

Origin

Late 16th century (as an adverb): a rhyming jingle of unknown origin, perhaps symbolic of running feet or from Middle English skelte ‘hasten’.

词汇	helter-skelter
释义	Definition of helter-skelter in English: helter-skelter adverb & adjective ˌhɛltəˈskɛltəˌhɛltərˈskɛltər In disorderly haste or confusion. 仓促杂乱的（地），混乱的（地） as adjective the helter-skelter dash to unity 仓促匆忙的统一。 as adverb hurtling helter-skelter down the pavement 沿人行道慌张地往前狂奔。 Example sentencesExamples It's a helter-skelter ride and you can reach speeds of more than 10 knots in the process. Our minds don't work in a straight line, but rather more like a pinball machine, bouncing ideas off one another helter-skelter. Efforts to vaccinate the nation's children went forward immediately, in somewhat helter-skelter fashion, to beat the summer onset of the disease. Giggling, his friend Brent ran helter-skelter beside him. Tell them that you feel friendship is undervalued in this helter-skelter crazy materialistic world. A helter-skelter mix of documentary and music video, the film contextualises Vivaldi's life through The Four Seasons, the most recorded and popular classical music ever written. The stunningly modern helter-skelter overpasses seem rather incongruous with a melange of bikes and cars that follow a system of road safety entirely their own. 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. I smiled to myself as the wind blew tossing the leaves helter-skelter and making them dance like ballerinas, minus the tutus. We can not simply go out, helter-skelter, and try to transform the biosphere, transform this planet, without knowing what we're doing. Inevitably you pay a price for treating the novel as helter-skelter melodrama. He also noticed rumpled clothing all over the floor, and a number of ripped plastic packages lying helter-skelter on the carpet. 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. And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused. Approaching this year's jamboree in Gloucestershire, he is riding better than ever at 34, having put the brakes on a helter-skelter lifestyle. At times in this hectic, helter-skelter world, an unpretentious reminder of the obvious is in order, and Dick and Larry have done it here. Science seems to offer him a point from which to view the helter-skelter human sagas created by the phantasms of mind and emotion. Fans will face the usual scraping and scrimping and helter-skelter hunting for tickets. The game continued at a helter-skelter pace, amid which Phil Vickery emerged from the replacements' bench to the loudest cheer of the afternoon. Fellini's tale of a middle-aged woman sloughing off her inhibitions is a caprice of a piece, a helter-skelter slide through the stages of abandon. Synonyms headlong, pell-mell, hotfoot, post-haste, hastily, in a hurry, hurriedly, as fast as possible, as quickly as possible, at full speed, at full pelt, at full tilt, hell for leather, recklessly, precipitately, impetuously, impulsively, carelessly, heedlessly, wildly informal like a bat out of hell, at a lick, like the wind, like greased lightning, like a bomb, like mad, like crazy, like blazes British informal like the clappers, at a rate of knots, like billy-o North American informal lickety-split literary apace, hurry-scurry noun ˌhɛltəˈskɛltəˌhɛltərˈskɛltər 1British A fairground amusement consisting of a tall spiral slide winding around a tower. Example sentencesExamples Large, multi-coloured plastic chutes on the mound would make great helter-skelter slides. There are waltzers, dodgems, helter-skelters and one or two old fashioned merry-go-rounds with properly painted horses. There's a vast market, with traders clad in frock coats, a fairground with hurdy-gurdies and helter-skelters, an artificial ice rink and three outdoor stages full of choirs and bands. I was spewing up iced-coffee and chips after about fifty descents in 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. 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. 2in singular Disorder; confusion. 仓促杂乱的（地），混乱的（地） the helter-skelter of a school day 仓促匆忙的统一。 Example sentencesExamples The object has been to trim some of the excesses indulged in during the helter-skelter of Celtic tiger times. That's the way it's supposed to be - an evolving drama with nuance, color, deliberate pacing, and bursts of action that take you away from the helter-skelter of our otherwise rush-rush worlds. Somebody has to get slain in the helter-skelter of this combat. Also, you have to bear in mind that a pullout cannot just be a chaotic one, a helter-skelter. And the band were rarely better than on this track, with its climb-the-ladder introduction that paused briefly before sending you off down their pop-rock helter-skelter. Only when I was outside again, in the mad helter-skelter of sound and light and asphalt, did I feel properly disgusted with my sentimentality and the way I'd laid myself open for the cameras. I must say that I find ‘Harmonica Dance’ more than just clever, and that ‘Clockwork’ merits more than description as another helter-skelter. His fast, free-wheeling style, is inspired lunacy, and his helter-skelter of a show promises the audience the ride of their lives. Other similar ideas slip down the lurid helter-skelter of modern life. 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. But why dwell on such things when the sun has returned with renewed resolve, teasing blooms from the helter-skelter of bare branches? Off the pitch, O'Sullivan leads a quiet life away from the helter-skelter of international rugby. The feeling at the pit now is that we have just gone through a helter-skelter of emotions and we need to put the men's needs first and have a period of stabilisation. Origin Late 16th century (as an adverb): a rhyming jingle of unknown origin, perhaps symbolic of running feet or from Middle English skelte 'hasten'. pell-mell from Late Middle English: People like words that combine two almost identical forms, like helter-skelter (late 16th century), mishmash (Late Middle English), namby-pamby, and wishy-washy (late 17th century)—and pell-mell. Its second element represents a form of French mesler ‘to mix’ (related to medley). The first part might be from pelle ‘shovel’, giving the sense ‘mixed together with a shovel’, but the simple love of rhyme may be the only explanation needed. Rhymes belter, delta, melter, pelta, Shelta, shelter, swelter, welter Definition of helter-skelter in US English: helter-skelter adverb & adjectiveˌheltərˈskeltərˌhɛltərˈskɛltər In disorderly haste or confusion. 仓促杂乱的（地），混乱的（地） as adverb hurtling helter-skelter down the pavement 沿人行道慌张地往前狂奔。 as adjective she had blamed her grogginess on a helter-skelter lifestyle Example sentencesExamples At times in this hectic, helter-skelter world, an unpretentious reminder of the obvious is in order, and Dick and Larry have done it here. 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. He also noticed rumpled clothing all over the floor, and a number of ripped plastic packages lying helter-skelter on the carpet. Fellini's tale of a middle-aged woman sloughing off her inhibitions is a caprice of a piece, a helter-skelter slide through the stages of abandon. I smiled to myself as the wind blew tossing the leaves helter-skelter and making them dance like ballerinas, minus the tutus. We can not simply go out, helter-skelter, and try to transform the biosphere, transform this planet, without knowing what we're doing. 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. The stunningly modern helter-skelter overpasses seem rather incongruous with a melange of bikes and cars that follow a system of road safety entirely their own. Fans will face the usual scraping and scrimping and helter-skelter hunting for tickets. Tell them that you feel friendship is undervalued in this helter-skelter crazy materialistic world. It's a helter-skelter ride and you can reach speeds of more than 10 knots in the process. Inevitably you pay a price for treating the novel as helter-skelter melodrama. And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused. Science seems to offer him a point from which to view the helter-skelter human sagas created by the phantasms of mind and emotion. The game continued at a helter-skelter pace, amid which Phil Vickery emerged from the replacements' bench to the loudest cheer of the afternoon. Efforts to vaccinate the nation's children went forward immediately, in somewhat helter-skelter fashion, to beat the summer onset of the disease. Approaching this year's jamboree in Gloucestershire, he is riding better than ever at 34, having put the brakes on a helter-skelter lifestyle. Giggling, his friend Brent ran helter-skelter beside him. A helter-skelter mix of documentary and music video, the film contextualises Vivaldi's life through The Four Seasons, the most recorded and popular classical music ever written. Our minds don't work in a straight line, but rather more like a pinball machine, bouncing ideas off one another helter-skelter. Synonyms headlong, pell-mell, hotfoot, post-haste, hastily, in a hurry, hurriedly, as fast as possible, as quickly as possible, at full speed, at full pelt, at full tilt, hell for leather, recklessly, precipitately, impetuously, impulsively, carelessly, heedlessly, wildly nounˌheltərˈskeltərˌhɛltərˈskɛltər 1in singular Disorder; confusion. 仓促杂乱的（地），混乱的（地） the helter-skelter of a school day 仓促匆忙的统一。 Example sentencesExamples I must say that I find ‘Harmonica Dance’ more than just clever, and that ‘Clockwork’ merits more than description as another helter-skelter. Also, you have to bear in mind that a pullout cannot just be a chaotic one, a helter-skelter. Other similar ideas slip down the lurid helter-skelter of modern life. The object has been to trim some of the excesses indulged in during the helter-skelter of Celtic tiger times. His fast, free-wheeling style, is inspired lunacy, and his helter-skelter of a show promises the audience the ride of their lives. Somebody has to get slain in the helter-skelter of this combat. The feeling at the pit now is that we have just gone through a helter-skelter of emotions and we need to put the men's needs first and have a period of stabilisation. 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. Off the pitch, O'Sullivan leads a quiet life away from the helter-skelter of international rugby. That's the way it's supposed to be - an evolving drama with nuance, color, deliberate pacing, and bursts of action that take you away from the helter-skelter of our otherwise rush-rush worlds. Only when I was outside again, in the mad helter-skelter of sound and light and asphalt, did I feel properly disgusted with my sentimentality and the way I'd laid myself open for the cameras. But why dwell on such things when the sun has returned with renewed resolve, teasing blooms from the helter-skelter of bare branches? And the band were rarely better than on this track, with its climb-the-ladder introduction that paused briefly before sending you off down their pop-rock helter-skelter. 2British A tall spiral slide winding around a tower at a fair. 〈英〉（娱乐场中围绕高塔的）旋转滑梯 Example sentencesExamples There's a vast market, with traders clad in frock coats, a fairground with hurdy-gurdies and helter-skelters, an artificial ice rink and three outdoor stages full of choirs and bands. I was spewing up iced-coffee and chips after about fifty descents in 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. There are waltzers, dodgems, helter-skelters and one or two old fashioned merry-go-rounds with properly painted horses. 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. Large, multi-coloured plastic chutes on the mound would make great helter-skelter slides. Origin Late 16th century (as an adverb): a rhyming jingle of unknown origin, perhaps symbolic of running feet or from Middle English skelte ‘hasten’.
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