PELL-MELL


Meaning of PELL-MELL in English

25B6; adverb

men streamed pell-mell from the building : HELTER-SKELTER, headlong, (at) full tilt, hotfoot, post-haste, hurriedly, hastily, recklessly, precipitately; archaic hurry-scurry.

the sacks' contents were thrown pell-mell to the ground : UNTIDILY, anyhow, in disarray, in a mess, in a muddle; informal all over the place, every which way, any old how; Brit. informal all over the shop; N. Amer. informal all over the map, all over the lot.

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