Home › Words › U › uptitlinguptitlinguptitling means the practice of giving a job an impressive title to make it appear more desirable.EtymologyFrom up- + titling.nounThe practice of giving a job an impressive title to make it appear more desirable.The practice of giving a book a more impressive title than its content merits.e.g.“But instead, we discover after a few pages that we have been victimized by the common publisher's trick of “uptitling.”” — 1963, The School Counselor - Volumes 11-13, page 252:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).