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  • adjective informal hectic and chaotic; action-packed

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Examples

  • Leo, your sign is ruled by the Sun and is the epitome of hellzapoppin 'fierceness.

    Holly Cara Price: Weekend Horoscoop* for May 30-31, 2009 ~ sisters of mercy edition 2009

  • All the envy, exasperation and spite he filtered out of his own quiet, grid-based paintings he dumped into hellzapoppin 'art-world cartoons (wisely prologued in William Rubin's conservative but razor-sharp installation as big photostats near the entrance).

    Every Picture Tells 2008

  • Slicked up, timed better, with much better writing in the later version but the hellzapoppin frantic punch line-punchline-punchilne rythm of One is certainly here to see.

    Stories from other stories Ed Gorman 2008

  • Slicked up, timed better, with much better writing in the later version but the hellzapoppin frantic punch line-punchline-punchilne rythm of One is certainly here to see.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Gorman 2008

  • IRT's production, directed by William Brown (no relation), turns the rivalry of the agile, faithful servant Passepartout and the dogged but unlucky Detective Fix into an intercontinental hellzapoppin 'game.

    IndyStar.com Top Stories 2010

  • It was all quaintly, reassuringly, hellzapoppin 'cheesy.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Richard Milward - author of the acclaimed coming-of-age novel Apples and now Ten Storey Love Song, the tale of a tower block and its hedonistic, hellzapoppin 'occupants told in a single,

    unknown title 2009

  • The brothers Russo and Mr. Harmon, who wrote the pilot, keep the show hellzapoppin’ with enough cultural references to make Josh Schwartz jealous.

    Plenty of Soup For You: Joel McHale Makes Community a Winner 2009

  • The brothers Russo and Mr. Harmon, who wrote the pilot, keep the show hellzapoppin’ with enough cultural references to make Josh Schwartz jealous.

    Plenty of Soup For You: Joel McHale Makes Community a Winner 2009

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