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Skelter

Skelter \Skel"ter\, v. i. [Cf. Helter-skelter.] To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off. [Colloq.]
--A. R. Wallace.

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skelter

vb. (context colloquial with "away" or "off" English) To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.

Usage examples of "skelter".

The jury would never buy Helter Skelter, Aaron said, suggesting that we offer something they would understand.

Helter Skelter theory if he could find another motive in the evidence.

This was what Helter Skelter, the black-white revolution, was all about.

It was obvious to both Crockett and Poston that Manson believed Helter Skelter was imminent.

Helter Skelter, and what it meant was the Negroes were going to come down and rip the cities all apart.

Helter Skelter, and he believed it was going to happen in the near future, almost immediately.

Helter Skelter motive was so bizarre that I knew if it was expounded by only one witness no juror would ever believe it.

When Manson had told Jakobson how Helter Skelter would start, he had said nothing about writing words in blood.

Manson lectured about the Beatles, Helter Skelter, and the bottomless pit.

Helter Skelter, a term he got from the English musical group the Beatles.

Charles Manson and his chosen followers, who intended to escape from Helter Skelter by going to the desert and living in a bottomless pit, a place that Manson derived from Revelation 9, a chapter in the last book of the New Testament .

Danny DeCarlo had never really understood Helter Skelter, or cared to.

Helter Skelter, the way the murders came down, your philosophy on life and death?

Step by step they traced the evolution of Helter Skelter, not intellectually, as Jakobson understood it, but as onetime true believers, members of the Family who had watched a vague concept slowly materialize into terrifying reality.

They will tell you that the Helter Skelter motive is absurd, ridiculous, unbelievable .