Usually means: Fighting imaginary enemies or threats.
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  1. tilt at windmills: Merriam-Webster
  2. tilt at windmills: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tilt at windmills: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. tilt at windmills: Wiktionary
  5. tilt at windmills: Dictionary.com
  6. tilt at windmills: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tilt at windmills: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (tilt at windmills)

verb:  (intransitive) To attack imaginary enemies.
verb:  (intransitive, by extension) To go on a wild-goose chase; to persistently engage in a futile activity.

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