Usually means: Carelessly, without direction or planning.
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  1. willy-nilly: Merriam-Webster
  2. willy-nilly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. willy-nilly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. willy-nilly, willy-nilly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. willy-nilly: Vocabulary.com
  6. willy-nilly: Wordnik
  7. willy-nilly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. willy-nilly: Wiktionary
  9. willy-nilly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. willy-nilly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. willy-nilly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. willy-nilly: Dictionary.com
  13. willy-nilly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. willy-nilly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. willy-nilly: Rhymezone
  16. Willy-nilly: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. willy-nilly: FreeDictionary.org
  18. willy-nilly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Willy-Nilly: The Word Detective
  20. willy-nilly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Willy-nilly: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. willy-nilly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. willy-nilly: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. willy-nilly: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. willy-nilly: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Whether desired or not; without regard for the consequences or the wishes of those affected; whether willingly or unwillingly.
adverb:  (idiomatic) Seemingly at random; haphazardly.
adjective:  Whether willing or unwilling.

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