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Wiktionary
- adj. idiomatic Askew.
Examples
“I love the off-kilter rhyming and how it all seems non-sequitur and yet makes sense at the same time.”
Knights of the Lunch Table: The Dragon Players » Comics Worth Reading
“The eyes of the lead “actresses” are often oddly slanted, off-kilter in relation to each other.”
“What the listener gets are sparkling, tumbling songs such as “Nothing Left,” which opens with an ominous riff, adds an off-kilter slashing rhythm section and leaps into an infectious fist-pump chant before cascading into a brilliant chorus that contains an actual hook.”
The Washington Post: Album review: Marnie Stern, "Marnie Stern (Self Titled)"
“The lacklustre band name – picked because main members Neil and Sharon Finn formed Pajama Club while lounging in their jim-jams one night – is a terrible introduction to an unexpectedly off-kilter project by the Crowded House leader and his wife.”
“So is a prospective candidate with a slightly off-kilter appearance better off altering or embracing it?”
“The overall tone is "madcap," which does fit the off-kilter medical emergency side of it.”
“It takes a special kind of bravery to put forward a wedding cake that might be a little off-kilter, but truly reflects the new couple's sensibilities.”
The Huffington Post: The Nerdiest Wedding Cake Toppers Of All Time (PHOTOS)
“Of course, nerds are no stranger to "off-kilter," and their wedding cakes often reflect it.”
The Huffington Post: The Nerdiest Wedding Cake Toppers Of All Time (PHOTOS)
“The song begins with a guitar-backed "recitative" before launching into an off-kilter pseudo-waltz in 7/8 time.”
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“I watched myself tilt my head and coyly smile in the bottom right corner of the chat window-the two off-kilter lamps in the room were casting an asymmetrical shadow over half my face.”
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Jheti's Words
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mollusque It's a corruption of Yiddish op gefilter, referring to the odor of rotten gefilte fish. Dec 23, 2008
bilby It's actually a cricket term relating to a certain strategy of concentrating fielders in an arc between silly mid-off and deep long-off. This is advantageous against batsmen who are weak on the cover drive and have a poor off-side game. The off-kilter trap was famously used by the great West Indies team of the late 1970s to upset the rhythm of Indian master I. Khan Singh. His failure to produce any fluent batting right up to the whitewash at Georgetown led him to storm out of the post-match press conference, declaring 'Off-kilter? I'll give you rum-sucking reggae monkeys off-kilter!' as he launched an unripe coconut with a hook shot over the Barbados Cricket Club Members Bar. It was a grand moment, despite the impending destruction of the one working traffic light on the island. Dec 23, 2008
whichbe Uh, well, yes, you see, this originates from the obsolete, Old English word oft-khilte, used to longingly reference any flamboyant drag queens from ancient Greece. Dec 23, 2008
reesetee Yes. It describes a Scottish stripper.
Oh! You mean a real answer? Dec 22, 2008
frogapplause I can't wait for reesetee or bilby or whichbe.... to answer this one! Dec 22, 2008
pollyanna Does this word have anything to do with kilts? Dec 22, 2008