Home › Words › U › uptiltuptiltuptilt means tilted upward.EtymologyFrom up- + tilt.adjTilted upward.nounAn upward tilt.verbTo tilt upward.To cause to tilt upward.e.g.“"Oh, that kind," retorted Carl, uptilting his chin a little. Carl never did like to own up he had made a mistake.” — 1970, Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Hustler Joe: and other stories:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).