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verb-intransitive. To sway as if about to fall.

verb-intransitive. To appear about to collapse: an empire that had begun to totter.

verb-intransitive. To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger.

n. The act or condition of tottering.

n. an unsteady movement or gait

n. A rag and bone man.

v. To walk,move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.

v. To collect junk or scrap.

verb-intransitive. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger.

verb-intransitive. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.

To stand or walk unsteadily; walk with short vacillating or unsteady steps; be unsteady; stagger.

To shake, and threaten collapse; become disorganized or structurally weak and seem ready to fall; become unstable and ready to overbalance or give way.

To dangle at the end of a rope; swing on the gallows.

Synonyms and

Stagger, etc. See reel.

To tremble, rock.

To shake; impair the stability of; render shaky or unstable.

An obsolete or dialectal form of tatter.

v. walk unsteadily

v. move without being stable, as if threatening to fall

v. move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

"But the fact of the matter is, that the Democrats on this sort of teeter totter, that is politics, when the Democrats go up, Republicans go down and vice versa."

tottered    tottering    totters   

walk    sway    shake    rock    move   

falter   

teeter-totter    topple   

shake    reel    lean    waver    sway    teeter    toddle   

Potter    Trotter    blotter    cotter    dotter    hotter    imprimatur    mater    otter    plotter   

shaky    frail    rickety    decrepit    wooden    stagger    precarious    gaunt    Wobbly    puny