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kilter

[ kil-ter ]

noun

  1. good condition; order:

    The engine was out of kilter.

  2. Poker. skeet 2.


kilter

/ ˈkɪltə /

noun

  1. working order or alignment (esp in the phrases off kilter, out of kilter )


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Word History and Origins

Origin of kilter1

First recorded in 1630–40; variant of dial. kelter < ?

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Word History and Origins

Origin of kilter1

C17: origin unknown

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Idioms and Phrases

see out of kilter .

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Example Sentences

Does it give you any anxiety to be so convincing at playing a character so off-kilter?

After all, just about any off-kilter statement can be taken seriously if it comes from a member of Congress.

“Everybody was probably a little out of kilter,” Royko says.

Still shackled, with his trousers in shreds and radiating off-kilter aggression, Phoenix immediately begins wilding out.

One nice, anti-surreal detail from Sala: Thanks to skewed gears in its innards, his off-kilter clock tells perfect time.

He can't talk much, though; 'tain't good fur him; his lungs is out er kilter.

The truth is, I have never got over the last influenza yet, and am miserably out of heart and out of kilter.

And telepathy or perception goes out of kilter first because the psi is a very delicate factor.

That means, the basic atoms of matter had been thrown out of kilter, sorta deranged.

"Your thought-works are out of kilter, Sis," declared Chet, laughing again.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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