KILTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kilter mean? 

• KILTER (noun)
  The noun KILTER has 1 sense:

1. in working order

  Familiarity information: KILTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KILTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In working order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

kelter; kilter

Context example:

in good kilter

Hypernyms ("kilter" is a kind of...):

order; orderliness (a condition of regular or proper arrangement)

 Context examples 

But it’s the projected reductions in pre-monsoon river flows and changes in the monsoon that will hit hardest, throwing urban water systems and food and energy production off kilter.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

The other way Uranus could work is that you receive sudden untoward news that shocks you and knocks you off-kilter.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)