[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pall-mall \pall`-mall"\, n. of. palemail, it. pallamagio; palla
   a ball of german origin, akin to e. ball + magio hammer,
   fr. l. malleus. see 1st ball, and mall a beetle.
   a game formerly common in england, in which a wooden ball was
   driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of
   iron. the name was also given to the mallet used, to the
   place where the game was played, and to the street, in
   london, still called pall mall. written also pail-mail and
   pell-mell. --sir k. digby. --evelyn.
   1913 webster
see also:
ball mall pail-mail pell-mell 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pell-mell \pell`-mell"\, n.
   see pall-mall.
   1913 webster
see also:
pall-mall 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pellmell \pell`mell"\, adv. f. p^ele-m^ele, prob. fr. pelle
   a shovel + m^eler to mix, as when different kinds of grain
   are heaped up and mixed with a shovel. see pell shovel,
   medley.
   in utter confusion; with confused violence. "men, horses,
   chariots, crowded pellmell." --milton.
   1913 webster
see also:
pell medley 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pell-mell
     adj : with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of
           existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for
           the train" syn: helter-skelter
     adv : in a wild or reckless manner; "dashing harum-scarum all over
           the place"; "running pell-mell up the stairs" syn: harum-scarum
see also:
helter-skelter harum-scarum 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

46 moby thesaurus words for "pell-mell":
   bedlam, brouhaha, chaos, chaotic, chaotically, commotion, confused,
   confusedly, confusion, disorder, disordered, disorderly,
   disorganized, excitement, feverish, feverishly, hastily, hasty,
   helter-skelter, hubbub, hurried, hurriedly, impetuous, impetuously,
   impulsive, impulsively, incautious, incautiously, mad, melee,
   pandemonium, panicky, precipitate, precipitately, rash, rashly,
   reckless, recklessly, slap-bang, slapdash, spontaneously, tumult,
   tumultuous, turmoil, wild, wildly

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