helter-skelter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf In confused, disorderly haste.

   “The winds knocked huge trees helter-skelter all over my garden.”

2. sıfat Carelessly hurried and confused.

   “Although his existential thoughts seem to have been tossed onto the page in helter-skelter fashion, what Gilboa does here is to open his mind and heart to the reader through verbal jaggedness and poetic unneatness.”

3. isim Confusion or turmoil.

   “‘I hardly know, — I imagine that it was with some dim idea of Marjorie’s being able to get in if she returned while I was absent, — but the truth is I was in such a condition of helter skelter that I am not prepared to swear that I had any reasonable reason.’”

4. isim An amusement ride consisting of a slide that spirals down around the exterior of a tapering central tower.

   “For gentler sliding fun, you can take a ride on the helter-skelter.”