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pell-mell adverb
/ˌpelˈmel/ adv old-fashioned Definition
very fast and not organized
At the sound of the alarm bell, the customers ran pell-mell for the doors.
(Definition of pell-mell adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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