a. [f. TIP sb.1 + TILTED ppl. a.2] Having the tip ‘tilted,’ i.e., turned up. Hence Tip-tilt v., trans. to turn up at the tip.

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1872.  Tennyson, Gareth, 576. And lightly was her slender nose Tip-tilted like the petal of a flower.

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1877.  Mrs. Forrester, Mignon, II. 51. Mignon ‘tiptilts’ her nose.

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1882.  Annie Edwardes, Ballroom Repent., I. 12. A Diana with … a tip-tilted nose.

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1884.  Sir C. W. Wilson, in Q. Statem. Palestine Explor. Fund, Jan., 48. The tip-tilted shoes are the ordinary sandals of the country.

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