every which way adv 1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: {randomly}, {indiscriminately}, {haphazardly}, {willy- nilly}, {arbitrarily}, {at random}, {every which way}] 2: haphazardly; "the books were piled up helter-skelter" [syn: {helter-skelter}, {every which way}]