(v. i.) To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had started with a short field after Terrelle Thomas intercepted Terrelle Pryor, taking the ball back on a helter-skelter return which ended with the defender fumbling the ball at the Oakland five-yard line, only for officials to rule that he had been down by contact.
(2) Many Conservatives have become increasingly concerned that in the government’s helter-skelter pursuit of the referendum, they have been jettisoning or watering down key elements of their legislative programme.
(3) Local television station Somoy TV showed live footage of people running helter skelter moments after the blasts.
(4) House Democrats will gather for a conference in Baltimore next week, strategising a way forward for the party after Trump’s stunning election defeat of Hillary Clinton and the helter skelter start to his presidency.
(5) Somewhere amid this helter-skelter of a contest, a refreshing frenzy of offensive play and attacking intent from start to finish, Tim Sherwood delivered a politically shrewd statement of intent.
(6) But this is more than just another notch on London's priapic skyline – soon to see the addition of "the scalpel" and "the helter skelter" tower, which will overshadow the Cheesegrater as the tallest building in the Square Mile.
(7) Huge projects in Redcar have already been completed, including transforming sea defences, and the £1.6m Redcar Beacon, a helter skelter-like tower and business space on the regenerated seafront.
(8) An ethics game entitled 'Rights: Helter Skelter' has been used with nursing students in their first course focused on ethics and nursing.
(9) It was a crazy, helter-skelter game and one that was overshadowed by some calamitous refereeing from a man who was officiating only his fourth Premier League game.
(10) We literally dodged bullets … It was very helter-skelter for a while.” He said bullet holes were found on the headquarters’ second floor, the information desk, and in cars where officers had been sitting.
(11) In the course of a helter-skelter career, Gerwig has established herself as the poster girl for wayward, brittle middle-youth.
(12) A fortunate baby boomer, mine had been a life that was, I suspect, not so very different from the lives of any number of thirty- and fortysomethings in the West: hedonistic, heedless, happy-go-lucky, helter-skelter.
(13) Nicknamed the Helter Skelter, its internal layout was as inefficient as its billowing exterior was extravagant.
(14) outfits groove to Blondie by the original 1940s toy car circuit, and a magician enthrals a crowd by the helter-skelter.
(15) The boy's father runs a helter skelter and a bungee trampoline business but parks his caravan on family-owned land during the winter break.
(16) The 17 rides, evoking the old-fashioned fun of the traditional British seaside, include a replica helter skelter, a vintage pedal car roadway, a Wedgwood teacup ride, dodgems and a ferris wheel.
(17) Saudi investment in the tallest tower in the City of London – the Pinnacle , also known as the Helter Skelter – has also stalled.
(18) There is no knowing yet what the helter skelter of the next few days will throw up.
(19) The pitch was hardly pristine and Ireland had to acclimatise quickly during frenetic opening exchanges, when the pace and helter-skelter action gave the occasion a real cup tie feel.
(20) Manchester City v Arsenal: Premier League – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg Read more An illustration of the helter-skelter fare came when Fernando claimed the ball near the centre spot and sent it skimming towards Agüero, who burned off Laurent Koscielny.