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uptilt

[uhp-tilt]
verb (used with object)
  1. to tilt up.
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Origin of uptilt

First recorded in 1900–05; up- + tilt1
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Historical Examples of uptilt

  • That identical "well" with its uptilt of question had been on George's tongue.

    The Sturdy Oak

    Samuel Merwin, et al.

  • There was the merest flavor of playful sarcasm in the uptilt of the word, but it was gone when she went on.

  • He laid the level rod on a rock and inclined it at the same steep pitch as the uptilt of the gorge bottom.

    Out of the Depths

    Robert Ames Bennet

  • A third uptilt, the great Okanogan, in northern Washington, soon appears.

    The Guardians of the Columbia

    John H. (John Harvey) Williams

British Dictionary definitions for uptilt

uptilt

verb
  1. (tr) to tilt up
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