Head Over Heels

Definition: Head Over Heels

Head Over Heels

Adverb

1. In disorderly haste; "we ran head over heels toward the shelter".

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Literature

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Synonyms: Head Over Heels

Feeling

Adverb: heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels.

Inversion

Adverb: inversely; Adjective: hirdy-girdy; heels over head, head over heels.

Love

Adjective: loving; Verb: fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten, bitten; attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed; Verb: in love; love-sick; over head and ears in love, head over heels in love.

Rashness

Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.

Rotation

Adverb: head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill.

Crosswords: Head Over Heels

I'm truly head over heels with your love (Truly; performing artist: Lionel Richie)

'Cause he's head over heels (Crybaby; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

Head Over Heels in Love (1937)

Head Over Heels (performing artist: Tears For Fears)

Head Over Heels (performing artist: The Go-Go's)

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Theater & Movies

• Head Over Heels (aka Chilly Scenes of Winter) (reference)

• Head Over Heels (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Expressions using "head over heels": ad head over heels ♦ be head over heels ♦ fall head over heels ♦ go head over heels ♦ head over heels in love ♦ tumble head over heels ♦ turn head over heels. Additional references.

Albanian

me turr (headforemost, headlong), me salto, kokë e këmbë (cap-a-pie, out and out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

презглава (pell mell). (various references)

Czech

střemhlav. (various references)

Finnish

suinpäin (headlong), päätäpahkaa (headlong, precipitately), nurin niskoin (headlong, topsy-turvy). (various references)

German

Sie ist bis über beide Ohren verliebt. (She's head over heels in love.), sich überschlagen (come thick and fast, crack, go head over heels, somersault, turn over). (various references)

Hungarian

hanyatt-homlok (headlong), nagy hirtelenséggel. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

真逆様に (headlong), 真っ逆様 (headlong). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まさかさまに (headlong), まっさかさま (headlong). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadhay overay eelshay

Portuguese

de pernas para o ar (topsy-turvy, upside down). (various references)

Romanian

rãsturnat (scattered, upset, upside down). (various references)

Russian 

кубарем, вверх тормашками. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preko ušiju. (various references)

Spanish

terriblemente (awfully, beastly, calamitously, deadly, Deuce, frightfully, hellish, horribly, jolly, painfully, terribly), patas arriba (topsyturvy). (various references)

Swedish

huvudstupa (headlong, pell mell), uppöver öronen. (various references)

Turkish

tepetaklak (inverted, topsyturvy, upside down), tepesi üstü, sırılsıklam (dripping, like a drowned rat, soaking wet, sodden, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, wet through, wringing, wringing wet), gırtlağına kadar, adamakıllı (greatly, over, Plumb, profound, proper, properly, regularly, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, wide, widely, with a vengeance). (various references)

Ukrainian

шкереберть (antipodean, topsy turvy). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: overheads, overlades.

-5 letters: ashlered, deleaves, haeredes, haverels, laveered, overhead, overheld, overlade, oversale, overseed, rehashed, reheeled, released, resealed, reshaved, resolved, revealed, shoveled, shoveler, slavered, sorehead.