Usually means: Inclination or slant from vertical.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word tilt:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tilt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tilt: Merriam-Webster
  3. tilt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tilt, tilt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tilt: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tilt: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tilt, tilt: Wordnik
  8. tilt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tilt: Wiktionary
  10. tilt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tilt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tilt: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tilt: Dictionary.com
  14. tilt (n.), tilt (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tilt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tilt (American band), Tilt (British band), Tilt (Cozy Powell album), Tilt (French magazine), Tilt (Greg Howe and Richie Kotzen album), Tilt (Kahimi Karie album), Tilt (Lightning Seeds album), Tilt (Polish band), Tilt (Scott Walker album), Tilt (TV series), Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album), Tilt (arcade), Tilt (band), Tilt (camera), Tilt (drink), Tilt (group), Tilt (optics), Tilt (poker), Tilt (producers), Tilt (radio), Tilt, Tilt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tilt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tilt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tilt: Rhymezone
  20. tilt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tilt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tilt: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tilt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tilt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tilt: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Tilt: Artist Search
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tilt: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tilt (Punk), tilt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. TILT: Acronym Finder
  3. tilt: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tilt, tilt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Tilt, tilt, tilt: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tilt: Dan's Poker
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Tilt: Poker Terms

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)

(Note: See tiltable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
verb:  (intransitive) To be at an angle.
verb:  (intransitive, jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
verb:  (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
verb:  (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
verb:  To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
verb:  (pinball, of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
verb:  (originally poker, video games, chess, slang) To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
verb:  (figurative) To modify one's approach.
noun:  A slope or inclination.
noun:  The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
noun:  (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
noun:  A jousting contest. (countable)
noun:  An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
noun:  A thrust, as with a lance.
noun:  A tilt hammer.
noun:  (uncountable, poker, video games, chess, slang) A state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
noun:  A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
noun:  Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

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