head over heels

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Tumbling upside down

   Tumbling upside down; somersaulting.

   • She tripped and rolled head over heels down the hill.
   • I was knocked head over heels about 20' from where I was before.
2. 2

   At top speed

   At top speed; frantically.

   • Hearing the noise in the dark, the children ran head over heels back home.
   • It told its readers that people all over the country were "rushing head over heels toward the El Dorado on the Pacific— that wonderful California, which sets the public mind almost on the highway to insanity."
3. 3

   Hopelessly

   Hopelessly; madly; to distraction; deeply; utterly.

   • I am head over heels in trouble.
   • Some of them lose and wind up head over heels in debt. Some of them win and wind up head over heels in debt.
   • There over, hereunder / You got me head over heels / There's nothing left to fear / If you really feel the way I feel
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   1. 4

      Hopelessly smitten

      Hopelessly smitten; madly in love.

      • Something happens and I'm head over heels / Ah, don't take my heart, don't break my heart / Don't, don't, don't throw it away
      • Steve is the hottest, smartest, funniest, and most athletic boy in all of Edison High. Who knew a jock could be captain of the math team? He is also the guy that every girl is head over heels for.
      • Not to mention the young man that I was head over heels with was the jock at the school he attended. He played football and was damned good at it!

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