"hell west and crooked" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1921, William MacLeod Raine, Gunsight Pass, page 52",
          "text": "When he and Bob knocked Steelman′s plans hell west and crooked after that yellow skunk George Doble betrayed me to Brad, the boy lost his boots in the brush.",
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          "ref": "1922, Elbert Hubbard, Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard, page 310",
          "text": "You see, Parson Brown, your stock is all mixed in and scattered hell-west and crooked ways, so you′ll jest have to pick out what′s handy. Is that all right ?",
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          "ref": "1992, Tom Cole, “Riding the Wildman Plains”, in The Tom Cole Omnibus, Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2003, page 109",
          "text": "24 October 1934 — Wednesday\nMustering the plant horses all day. Now we have stopped shooting they are scattering about Hell West and Crooked.",
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          "text": "2005, Private Albert Franklin Edwards (Canadian Infantry), Two Years in the Ypres Salient, Henry L. Fox (editor), What the Boys Did Over There: Allied Overseas Stories, page 53,\nWhen it was exploded it blew up the entire town and also blew 61000 Huns “Hell, west and crooked.”"
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          "ref": "2007, Rowhan Marshall, A Walk on the Wild Side, page 45",
          "text": "Unfortunately Les arrived by 4WD to check up on our progress, only to find most of us sound asleep in the shade. He gave us a good revving and sent us hell, west and crooked to forage for bush tucker.",
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          "text": "They then scattered half a dozen scraggy chooks hell, west and crooked.",
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        "All over the place; every which way."
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        "(US, Australia) All over the place; every which way."
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      "ipa": "/hɛl wɛst ənd ˈkɹʊkɪd/"
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          "ref": "1921, William MacLeod Raine, Gunsight Pass, page 52",
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