Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - helter-skelter
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Helter-skelter
helter-skelter
You use helter-skelter to describe something that is hurried and disorganized, especially when things happen very quickly, one after the other. He now faces another crisis in his helter-skelter existence. ADJ: ADJ n • Helter-skelter is also an adverb. ...a panic-stricken crowd running helter-skelter to get away from the tear gas. ADV: ADV after v
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I. adverb Etymology: perhaps from Middle English skelten to come, go Date: 1593 1. in undue haste, confusion, or disorder ran ~, getting in each other's way — F. V. W. Mason 2. in a haphazard manner II. noun Date: 1713 1. a disorderly confusion ; turmoil 2. British a spiral slide around a tower at an amusement park III. adjective Date: 1708 1. confusedly hurried ; precipitate 2. marked by a lack of order or plan ; haphazard the ~ arrangement of the papers, all mussed and frayed — Jean Stafford ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adv., adj., & n. --adv. & adj. in disorderly haste. --n. Brit. a tall spiral slide round a tower, at a fairground or funfair. Etymology: imit., orig. in a rhyming jingle, perh. f. ME skelte hasten ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. как попало; врассыпную; беспорядочно; в беспорядке; 2. перемешанный, спутанный; беспорядочный; суматошный; 3. беспорядочное бегство; 4. неразбериха; суматоха; сутолока; 5. спиральная горка ...Англо-русский словарь идиом
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1. суматоха; сутолока, неразбериха 2. беспорядочное бегство 3. спиральная горка (аттракцион) 4. беспорядочный helter-skelter flight —- беспорядочное бегство 5. случайный, бессистемный 6. беспорядочно, как попало magazines stacked helter-skelter on tables —- журналы, как попало наваленные на столах the children ran helter-skelter when the dog barked at them —- когда на ребят залаяла собака, они бросились врассыпную ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 adv quickly and without order or organization (He ran off helter-skelter down the slope.) ~2 n BrE a tall structure in a fairground which you sit on at the top and slide round and round to the bottom ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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{adv.} 1. At a fast speed, but in confusion. * /The hatted ball broke Mr. Jones's window, and the boys ran away helter-skelter./ * /When the bell rang, the pupils ran helter-skelter out of the door./ 2. In a confusing group; in disorder. * /The movers piled the furniture helter-skelter in the living room of the new house./ * /Mary fell down and her books, papers, and lunch landed helter-skelter over the sidewalk./ Compare: EVERY WHICH WAY. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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- 1593, first attested in Shakespeare, perhaps from skelte "to hasten, scatter hurriedly," with the first element merely for rhyme. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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