Look up: Helter-skelter

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   Helter skelter
   A `helter skelter` is an amusement park ride with a slide built in a spiral around a high tower. Users climb the tower and slide down usually on a mat. It is the precursor to the water slide. The term is primarily (but not exclusively) found in British English. The term gained notoriety and an association with the macabre in bizarre consequence of The Beatles' 1968 release of the song `Helter Skelter.` To Britons, the song's lyrics involved refe...
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   Helter Skelter
   ``Helter Skelter`` is a song written by Paul McCartney, credited to Lennon/McCartney, and recorded by The Beatles on `The White Album`. A product of McCartney's deliberate effort to create a sound as loud and dirty as possible, the clangorous piece has been noted for both a `proto-metal roar` and `unique textures.`
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   Helter Skelter
   (from the article `Manson, Charles`) American criminal and cult leader whose followers carried out several notorious murders in the late 1960s. Their crimes inspired the best-selling ...
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   helter-skelter
   [adj] - with undue hurry and confusion 2. [adv] - haphazardly
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   Helter-skelter
   Hel'ter-skel'ter adverb [ An onomat...poetic word. Confer German holter-polter , Dutch holder de bolder .] In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly. [ Colloq.] « Helter-skelter have I rode to thee.» Shak. « A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof.» J. C. Harris.
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   helter-skelter
   In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly. 'Helter-skelter have I rode to thee.' (Shak) 'A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof.' (J. C. Harris) ... Origin: An onomatpoetic word. Cf. G. Holter-polter, D. Holder de bolder. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   helter-skelter
   pell-mell adjective with undue hurry and confusion; `a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause`; `a pell-mell dash for the train`
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   helter-skelter
   every which way adverb haphazardly; `the books were piled up helter-skelter`
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   Helter-skelter
   • (adv.) In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly.
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