uptilt

[ uhp-tilt ]

verb (used with object)

1. to tilt up.

uptilt

/ ʌpˈtɪlt /

verb

1. tr to tilt up

Word History and Origins

Origin of uptilt¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

You can see it in the way that she finishes a pirouette with her arms circled above her head en couronne, and then, with a triumphant little uptilt of the chin, turns her palms outwards.

From The Guardian

In its larger contours, Promised Land also resembles The Joneses, the 2009 satire about four stealth-marketers purporting to be a happy family; they move into a suburb and convince the conspicuous consumers to buy expensive products from the Joneses’ company — until… The “until” is always the salesman’s Act Three ethical uptilt, which is as easy to spot in Promised Land as poisonous derricks on virgin soil.

From Time

Uptilt, up-tilt′, v.t. to tilt up.—adj.

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