HELTER-SKELTER


Meaning of HELTER-SKELTER in English

■ adjective & adverb in disorderly haste or confusion.

■ noun Brit. a tall spiral slide winding around a tower at a fair.

Origin

C16: a rhyming jingle of unknown origin, perh. symbolic of running feet or from ME skelte 'hasten'.

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