From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishteetertee‧ter /ˈtiːtə $ -ər/ verb [intransitive] 1 BALANCEto stand or walk moving from side to side, as if you are going to fall She teetered along in her high-heeled shoes.2 → be teetering on the brink/edge of something→ See Verb table
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teeter• Invariably our toes are unnaturally cramped into odd-shaped shoes and the feet raised because we choose to teeter around in high heels!• Gilling's ability to teeter between fantasy and plausibility recalls Dickens.What he imagines is equal to anything Prospero might have conjured.• The kegs shifted, teetered, fell!• If it were as bad as its critics contend, our society would be teetering on the edge of extinction.• Wednesday morning, during an hourlong session with reporters, Forbes appeared to be teetering on the edge of folding his campaign.• As the piece opens, he is in an internment camp, and she is teetering on the edge of madness.• And rather than treading the boards ... they were teetering two feet above them.Origin teeter (1800-1900) titter “to move unsteadily” ((14-20 centuries)) 