noun / verb
tilt
A contest undertaken against an opponent.
The rivals meet tonight in a tilt for the championship.
Etymology
Tilt acquired a tournament sense for charging at an opponent with a lance. The contest sense broadened from that mounted encounter to other challenges.
More examples
- Saturday's tilt pits the league's two best teams against each other.
- The knights tilt with lances in the tournament.
- She makes another tilt at the title after last year's defeat.
Forms
tilt · tilts · tilted · tilting