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

In 1992, the landmark “Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the ‘90s” looked forward, not backward, inventing history.

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"It was quite a helter skelter two days."

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That would be Hopwood DePree, now 55, an actor, screenwriter, producer and director whose credits include a role in the 2004 TV movie “Helter Skelter.”

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Manson family member Patricia Krenwinkel — who broke into the home of a Los Angeles grocer, stabbed him and wrote “Helter Skelter,” “Rise” and “Death to Pigs” on the walls with his blood — has been denied parole by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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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.”

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