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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pell-mell /ˌpɛlˈmɛl/
 (ad.)亂七八糟地,淩亂地,猛烈地(a.)胡亂的,混亂的亂七八糟,混亂,雜亂

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pall-mall n.  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.]
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pell-mell n. See Pall-mall.
 

From: 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]