HELTER­SKELTER


Meaning of HELTER­SKELTER in English

adv., adj., & n.

adv. & adj. in disorderly haste.

n. Brit. a tall spiral slide round a tower, at a fairground or funfair.

[ imit., orig. in a rhyming jingle, perh. f. ME skelte hasten ]

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