Skelter
[skeltә(r)]
Definition
(v. i.) To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.
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Definition
v.i. to hurry or dash along.
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Examples
- There is nothing of the helter-skelter, slap-dash style in Edison's experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We might point to the first experiments aimed at remedying the helter-skelter of careers by vocational guidance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I poked again and said, A little faster, then off he went, helter-skelter as before, and we resigned ourselves to our fate. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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