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Meanings of teeter in English

Portuguese
balancé
Catalan
tímbala-tàmbala
Spanish
balancín
Wikidata

A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end.

balancé
Catalan
balancejar
Spanish
tambalear

Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion.

balancejar
Usage of teeter in English
1
At times it is allowed to teeter dangerously close to self consciousness.
The Guardian
2
For some black millennials, their lives teeter on the edge of catastrophe.
The Guardian
3
In fact they often teeter over when it comes to the law book.
The Irish Times
4
His departure could see Mrs May's government teeter closer to a general election.
News.com.au
5
Height is good but you don't want to tower or teeter.
The Irish Times
6
ONI had long been perceived to teeter on the edge of financial ruin.
The Irish Times
7
His gait was the peculiar mincing teeter of savage conventional society.
The Land of Footprints
8
Marshall saw his old friend teeter and drop out of sight.
Masked
9
He felt himself teeter, and slowly arc away from the I-beam.
Hellfire
10
They played tag, and hide-and-go-seek, as well as teeter-tauter, and bean-bag.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus
11
I teeter on my tenth rung, the rope saving my balance.
Waiting for the Barbarians
12
She'd teeter slightly on her crutches, then throw one wide to catch herself.
Too close to home
13
They give old blubbery Fred Flintstone here a rough, flashy totter and teeter.
The new yorker
14
Oh, that was my invention to make the teeter-tauter more comfortable.
The Forbidden Trail
15
I suddenly felt my husband teeter, as if his legs were giving way.
Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
16
We teeter in the air, not far above the black waves.
World After
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