Meaning & use
pell-mell
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In a hurried, confused, and disorderly manner.
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The children ran pell-mell across the playground when the bell rang.
Shoppers rushed pell-mell through the doors on the first day of the sale.
A note on using this word
Usually written with a hyphen ('pell-mell'); it can also function as an adjective describing disorderly haste, as in 'a pell-mell retreat.'
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hastilychaotically
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