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| tee·ter [ ttər ] (past and past participle tee·tered, present participle tee·ter·ing, 3rd person present singular tee·ters) |
intransitive verb |
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1. totter: to walk or move unsteadily and as if about to fall
 teetering along in her high heels
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2. be in precarious position: to be in a precarious position in which things could imminently go badly wrong
 an economy teetering on the verge of recession
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3. vacillate: to vacillate or fluctuate between different attitudes or positions
 teetered between wanting to go and not wanting to go
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4. Same as seesawv (sense 2) (sense 3)
 teetered between wanting to go and not wanting to go
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| [Mid-19th century. Variant of dialect titter< Germanic] |