Teeter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To walk or move unsteadily or unsurely; totter.
  • verb-intransitive. To alternate, as between opposing attitudes or positions; vacillate.
  • verb-intransitive. To seesaw.
  • v. To cause to teeter or seesaw.
  • n. Northeastern U.S. See seesaw. See Regional Note at teeter-totter.
  • n. Northeastern U.S. A teetering motion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To tilt back and forth on an edge.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hence To move about foolishly and aimlessly.
  • To see-saw; move up and down in see-saw fashion.
  • n. A see-saw.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
  • n. a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
  • Verb Form
    teetered    teetering    teeters   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    move    toy    plaything   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    seesaw    titter    titter-totter    see sa   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Demeter    Peter    beater    cheater    depleter    dieter    eater    heater    kilometre    liter   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hopin'    dinning    bitching    theorising    riz    carding    perfuming    plashing    toning    overexertion