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uptilt

American  
[uhp-tilt] / ʌpˈtɪlt /

verb (used with object)

  1. to tilt up.


uptilt British  
/ ʌpˈtɪlt /

verb

  1. (tr) to tilt up

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of uptilt

First recorded in 1900–05; up- + tilt 1

Example Sentences

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What is changed is Olive’s situation at the very close: These stringently non-Hollywood filmmakers have suggested a cheerful, almost-Hollywood uptilt for her life.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2018

The photographer has crouched at ground level to take the shot so that she looms larger than life in the frame, the defiant uptilt of her chin emphasised.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2018

To this day, the legend survives that Windy City newsmen uptilt their hatbrims and race off at 45� angles.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George

"No," she said decisively, with a charming little uptilt of the adorable chin.

From Empire Builders by Hambidge, Jay

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