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pell-mell - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'pell-mell' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pell-mell [ n.]
- See Pall-mall.

Meaning of 'pell-mell' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . pell-mell [ r]
Meaning (1):
- in a wild or reckless manner
Example in sentence:
  • dashing harum-scarum all over the place;
  • running pell-mell up the stairs
2 . pell-mell [ s]
Meaning (2):
- with undue hurry and confusion
Example in sentence:
  • a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause;
  • a pell-mell dash for the train

Nearby Words:

pela pelage pelagian pelagianism pelagic pelargonic pelargonium pelasgian pelasgic pelecan

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