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- amok
- (or amuck),
- berserk,
- berserkly,
- frantically,
- frenetically,
- frenziedly,
- harum-scarum,
- hectically,
- helter-skelter,
- madly,
- wild,
- wildly
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The first known use of pell-mell was in 1590
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