skelter

[skel-ter]

verb (used without object)

1. to scurry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of skelter¹

First recorded in 1850–55; probably extracted from helter-skelter

Example Sentences

The advantage of the smallness, of course, was that you could really hear what McCartney and his longtime backup band were doing up there: the folky campfire vocal harmonies in “I’ve Just Seen a Face,” the propulsive groove driving “Get Back,” the barely organized chaos of a downright raunchy “Helter Skelter.”

From Los Angeles Times

These words — including “pigs,” “rise” and “Helter Skelter” — helped build the prosecution’s case that Manson had intended to incite a race war.

From Los Angeles Times

The drummer was brought on stage to thunderous applause before the pair launched into classics Helter Skelter and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

From BBC

In “Helter Skelter,” his account of the Manson murders, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote that Fromme wore a perpetual smile, possessed a “little-girl quality” and seemed to radiate an “inner contentment” that reminded him of a religious fanatic.

From Los Angeles Times

His sway stems from far more than multimillion-dollar sales in an overheated art market, although a $12-million auction of his monumental canvas “Helter Skelter,” a 34-foot-wide meditation on the race war Charles Manson envisioned starting, is nothing to sneeze at.

From Los Angeles Times