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.
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).
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.
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