Usually means: Bird's tail movement, balancing act.
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  1. teeter-tail: Wordnik
  2. teeter-tail: Wiktionary
  3. Teeter-tail, teeter-tail: Dictionary.com
  4. Teeter-tail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. teeter-tail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Teeter-tail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. teeter-tail: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Teeter-tail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (teeter-tail)

▸ noun:  A bird, the spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularius.

Similar:
spotted sandpiper, peetweet, sandbird, sharp-tailed sandpiper, fiddler, Terek, quaketail, long-toed stint, spiketail, softtail, more...

Opposite:
head-to-toe, top-to-bottom, upright, steady

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Similar:
spotted sandpiper, peetweet, sandbird, sharp-tailed sandpiper, fiddler, Terek, quaketail, long-toed stint, spiketail, softtail, more...

Opposite:
head-to-toe, top-to-bottom, upright, steady



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