kilter
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈkɪl.tə/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈkɪl.tɚ/
Noun

kilter

  1. (usually in the negative) Alternative form of kelter [from 17th c.]
    not in kilter
    • 1909, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Man from Eldorado”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, OCLC 2068144 ↗, part I, stanza 2, page 71 ↗:
      [H]e lived on tinned tomatoes, beef embalmed and sourdough bread, / On rusty beans and bacon furred with mould; / His stomach’s out of kilter and his system full of lead, / But it's over, and his poke is full of gold.
  2. Alternative form of kelter#English|kelter (“a bad hand of cards in a game”)
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