Usually means: Move unsteadily, sway back forth.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Teeter:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. teeter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. teeter: Merriam-Webster
  3. teeter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. teeter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. teeter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. teeter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Teeter, teeter: Wordnik
  8. teeter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Teeter, teeter: Wiktionary
  10. teeter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. teeter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. teeter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. teeter: Dictionary.com
  14. teeter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. teeter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Teeter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Teeter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. teeter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. teeter: Rhymezone
  20. Teeter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. TEETER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. teeter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. teeter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. teeter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. teeter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. teeter: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. teeter, the teeter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Teeter)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To tilt back and forth on an edge.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To totter (move unsteadily).
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To be indecisive; to hesitate.
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To be close to becoming a typically negative situation.
▸ noun:  (Canada, US) A teeter-totter or seesaw.
▸ noun:  A surname from German.

Similar:
totter, seesaw, titter, teeter-totter, topple, tilt, uptilt, Tottle, stagger, heel over, more...

Opposite:
balance, stabilize, steady

Phrases:
teeter totter, teeter totters, teeter tail, teeter toter, teeter on the brink, more...

Adjectives:
full, hart, republican, peculiar, little, singular, whole

Colors:
    teal,     turquoise,     tangerine,     taupe,     teal blue, more...


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Similar:
totter, seesaw, titter, teeter-totter, topple, tilt, uptilt, Tottle, stagger, heel over, more...

Opposite:
balance, stabilize, steady

Phrases:
teeter totter, teeter totters, teeter tail, teeter toter, teeter on the brink, teeter off, more...

Adjectives:
full, hart, republican, peculiar, little, singular, whole

Colors:
    teal,     turquoise,     tangerine,     taupe,     teal blue, more...



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