See skelter on Wiktionary
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"A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner."
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"ref": "1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago:",
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"To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry."
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"(colloquial, with \"away\" or \"off\") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry."
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hurry, scurry",
"word": "eilen"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "hasten"
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"a pedal car, a quadricycle (a go-kart-like toy car powered by pedals)"
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"etymology_text": "Compare helter-skelter.",
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"etymology_text": "Compare helter-skelter.",
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"To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry."
],
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"(colloquial, with \"away\" or \"off\") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry."
],
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"with \"away\" or \"off\""
],
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hurry, scurry",
"word": "eilen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hurry, scurry",
"word": "hasten"
}
],
"word": "skelter"
}
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