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Definition of "head over heels" []

  • Tumbling upside down. (adverb)
  • At top speed; frantically. (adverb)
  • Hopelessly smitten. (adverb)

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Use "head over heels" in a sentence
  • "What about how Jamal got a girlfriend, fell head over heels in love, and completely changed the course of his life this past summer, while I just smoked and grieved and watched it happen from a pharmed-out distance."
  • "Because right after their season of Daredevils wrapped, Vic met Syd and fell head over heels in love with her!"
  • "Whether it was by my scratching and scraping against the soil or by my weight pressing down on a particularly unstable spot, the earth abruptly gave way beneath me, and I tumbled down in a torrent of soil and stone, losing the lamp in my helpless fall, rolling head over heels before coming to a jaw-jarring stop upon my bottom."