helter-skelter

helter-skelter
1. adverb
Carelessly hurried and confused
3. noun

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  • Helter Skelter — may refer to:Music and literature* Helter Skelter (song), by The Beatles, covered by many other artists and featured in the musical Across The Universe * Helter Skelter (album), a 1996 album by The D.O.C. *Helter Skelter (rave music promoter) *… …   Wikipedia

  • Helter Skelter — «Helter Skelter» Canción de The Beatles Álbum The Beatles Publicación 22 de noviembre de 1968 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Helter Skelter — heißen Helter Skelter (Lied), ein Lied der Beatles Helter Skelter (Manson), den von Charles Manson prophezeiten apokalyptischen Rassenkrieg Helter Skelter (Roman), ein Roman von Vincent Bugliosi aus dem Jahr 1974 über die Manson Family Helter… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Helter Skelter — (рус. Кавардак, суматоха): «Helter Skelter (песня)» песня The Beatles из одноимённого альбома, один из первых образцов прото метала. Helter Skelter (книга)[ru] книга американского юриста Винсента Буглиози (Бульози) о преступнике Чарльзе Мэнсоне …   Википедия

  • Helter-skelter — Hel ter skel ter, adv. [An onomat?poetic word. Cf. G. holter polter, D. holder de bolder.] In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose; irregularly. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Helter skelter have I rode to thee. Shak. [1913 Webster] A wistaria …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • helter-skelter — (adv.) also helter skelter, 1590s, perhaps from skelte to hasten, scatter hurriedly, with the first element there merely for the sake of rhyme. As an adjective from 1785 …   Etymology dictionary

  • helter-skelter — [hel′tər skel′tər] adv. [arbitrary formation, suggesting confusion] in haste and confusion; in a disorderly, hurried manner adj. hurried and confused; disorderly n. anything helter skelter …   English World dictionary

  • Helter Skelter — es una canción compuesta por Paul McCartney. Es uno de los primeros temas de lo que más tarde se llamó heavy metal o rock pesado?. Este tema dio pie a Charles Manson para cometer los asesinatos de Sharon Tate, esposa de Roman Polansky, y sus… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • helter-skelter — [adv] carelessly, confused about, anyhow, any which way*, anywise, around, at random, cluttered, disorderly, haphazard, hastily, headlong, higgledy piggledy*, hitor miss*, hotfoot*, hurriedly, impetuously, incautiously, in confusion,… …   New thesaurus

  • helter-skelter — ► ADJECTIVE & ADVERB ▪ in disorderly haste or confusion. ► NOUN Brit. ▪ a tall spiral slide winding around a tower at a fair. ORIGIN perhaps symbolic of running feet or from obsolete skelte «hasten» …   English terms dictionary

  • Helter Skelter — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Helter Skelter (homonymie). Blackbird Chanson par The Beatles extrait de l’album The Beatles …   Wikipédia en Français

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