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on tilt

on tilt prepositional phrase: playing badly, usually overaggressively because of losing hands.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Playing badly, usually overaggressively because of losing hands.

Questions about on tilt

What does on tilt mean?
On tilt means playing badly, usually overaggressively because of losing hands.
What part of speech is on tilt?
On tilt is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on tilt in the dictionary

  1. on the wrong track
  2. on thin ice
  3. on this score
  4. on threes
  5. on tick
  6. on tilt
  7. on time
  8. on tiptoe
  9. on to
  10. on top
  11. on top of

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