Usually means: Hasty, chaotic, and disorderly manner.
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  1. pell-mell: Merriam-Webster
  2. pell-mell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pell-mell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pell-mell, pell-mell: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pell-mell: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pell-mell, pell-mell: Wordnik
  7. pell-mell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pell-mell: Wiktionary
  9. pell-mell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pell-mell: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pell-mell: Dictionary.com
  12. Pell-mell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Pell-mell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pell-mell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. pell-mell: Rhymezone
  16. Pell-mell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Pell-mell: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. pell-mell: FreeDictionary.org
  19. pell-mell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pell-mell: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pell-mell: A Word A Day
  2. pell-mell: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Hasty and uncontrolled.
adverb:  In haste and chaos; uncontrolledly, confusedly.
noun:  Alternative form of pall mall (“ball game”) [(historical) A 17th-century game in which a ball was driven along an alley and through a hoop using a mallet.]

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