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kil⋅ter

  [kil-ter]
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–noun
1. good condition; order: The engine was out of kilter.
2. Poker. skeet 2 .
Origin:
1630–40; var. of dial. kelter < ?

skeet

2  [skeet]
–noun Poker.
a hand consisting of a nine, five, two, and two other cards of denominations below nine but not of the same denomination, being of special value in certain games.
Also called kilter, pelter.

Origin:
orig. uncert.
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kil·ter   (kĭl'tər)   
n.  Good condition; proper form: "policy 'adjustments' designed to bring the . . . country's economy back into kilter with the Western economic system" (Edward Zuckerman).

[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
skeet

  1. n.
    a blob of nasal mucus. (Collegiate. See also skeet-shooting.) : God, Fred, there's a gross skeet hanging outa your nose!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

kilter 
in out of kilter (1628) variant of Eng. dial. kelter (1606) "good condition, order," of unknown origin.

skeet 
form of trapshooting, 1926, a name chosen as "a very old form of our present word 'shoot.' " Perhaps O.N. skotja "to shoot" (see shoot) was intended.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

kilter

see out of kilter.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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