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helter-skelter

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
helter-skelter/heltəˈskeltə(r)/

▶adjective & adverb in disorderly haste or confusion. ▶noun Brit. a tall spiral slide winding around a tower at a fair.

– origin C16: a rhyming jingle of unknown origin, perh. symbolic of running feet or from ME skelte ‘hasten’.

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