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kilter

[ kil-ter ]

noun

  1. good condition; order:

    The engine was out of kilter.

  2. Poker. skeet 2.


kilter

/ ˈɪə /

noun

  1. working order or alignment (esp in the phrases off kilter, out of kilter )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of kilter1

First recorded in 1630–40; variant of dial. kelter < ?
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51Թ 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

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Sometimes the bills being issued are not only late, but also out of kilter with the amount of energy the customer believes they used.

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“The world is out of kilter,” she later tells us.

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There were, however, occasional moments of good fortune during a knock which was completely out of kilter with the way most of Australia's players have approached this match.

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"I had explained the situation to him... and then he asked a very off kilter question about sex, which kind of threw me a little bit," she said.

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“We build a statistical profile around what good normal looks like. We can see, based on the data the bank has, if something is normal behaviour, or anomalistic and out of kilter.”

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