Meaning of Kilter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hand of playing cards which is useless.
2. Chiefly in out of kilter: (good) condition, form, or order; fettle.
   uncountable

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Examples

“not in kilter”

“[T]hey are either round-shouldered, knock-kneed, bow-legged, or parrot-toed; some are also badly cross-eyed. It seems as if they can see two different ways at the same time. Jack says they are lop-sided and out of kilter altogether.”

“[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.”

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