TEETER


Meaning of TEETER in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

on

He was teetering on the brink of something serious.

Instead Ralph pressed his fingers together and let the girl teeter on .

■ NOUN

brink

A moment later, realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity, she brought herself up short.

The banking structure seemed to teeter on the brink of ruin.

By the time we are all set to go to a club I am teetering on the brink .

That was plainly evident in the locker room, where Hostetler teetered on the brink of openly losing his temper.

He says that the country is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

He was teetering on the brink of something serious.

She had long teetered on the brink .

The back row, from about the third day of classes on, teetered on the brink of chaos.

edge

We are teetering on the edge of farce.

Wednesday morning, during an hourlong session with reporters, Forbes appeared to be teetering on the edge of folding his campaign.

Now he was teetering on the edge of the parapet.

As the piece opens, he is in an internment camp, and she is teetering on the edge of madness.

It is a dangerous moment, pregnant with hope teetering on the edge of despair.

If it were as bad as its critics contend, our society would be teetering on the edge of extinction.

He meant: to me, at the department store, and I felt myself teeter on the edge of something.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And rather than treading the boards ... they were teetering two feet above them.

As the piece opens, he is in an internment camp, and she is teetering on the edge of madness.

Gilling's ability to teeter between fantasy and plausibility recalls Dickens.What he imagines is equal to anything Prospero might have conjured.

If it were as bad as its critics contend, our society would be teetering on the edge of extinction.

Invariably our toes are unnaturally cramped into odd-shaped shoes and the feet raised because we choose to teeter around in high heels!

The kegs shifted, teetered, fell!

Wednesday morning, during an hourlong session with reporters, Forbes appeared to be teetering on the edge of folding his campaign.

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