Definition of "teeter"

teeter

/ˈtiːtə/

verb
third-person singular simple present teeters, present participle teetering, simple past and past participle teetered
1. (intransitive) To tilt back and forth on an edge.
  Quotations
  The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.
  2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎
  This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.
  2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times‎
2. (intransitive) To totter (move unsteadily).
3. (figuratively) To be indecisive.
4. (figuratively) To be close to becoming a typically negative situation.
noun
plural teeters
1. (Canada, US) A teeter-totter or seesaw.