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helter-skelter

1. adjective Haphazard; chaotic. The campaign has been utterly helter-skelter. They don't even have an official spokesperson, so a lot of contradictory statements have been given by the staff. With such young children, I expected a helter-skelter environment, but the classroom was so orderly. A: "Could you follow anything he said in that helter-skelter 'speech'?" B: Nope. He rambled so much that I don't even know what he was supposed to be talking about!"

2. adverb Haphazardly; in a chaotic fashion. You can't just throw in ingredients helter-skelter when you're baking. Everything needs to be measured and added at the right time. Come on, people—it takes forever to find anything when you leave files helter-skelter in the conference room like this. My alarm didn't go off on time on the morning of my flight, so I had to just chuck all my clothes helter-skelter into a suitcase and run out the door.

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