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- adverb While
teetering , or as if teetering.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When our car's left front wheel goes sailing off to the side of a remote mountain road, leaving one end of the axle to gouge a long furrow in the dirt, the driver of a passing truck, piled teeteringly high with goods and then with people sitting on top, immediately stops and crawls under the car, using his jack in tandem with ours to solve the problem and get us on our way.
Rape of the Congo Hochschild, Adam 2009
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Angelyne of the platinum blond hair, big breasts, and teeteringly, dangerously high heels, pink microskirts, and sunglasses.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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Angelyne of the platinum blond hair, big breasts, and teeteringly, dangerously high heels, pink microskirts, and sunglasses.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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We are indeed in the Age of Darkness, KaliYuga, "in which the cow of mortality has been reduced to standing, teeteringly, on a single leg!"
On the Indian World-Mountain Towers, Robert 1981
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The dancing is less important than the audience's relation to it: if few aspire to the polish of Kara Tointon, many can put themselves in the shoes of cute Tina O'Brien, teeteringly fallible Patsy Kensit or glamorous granny Pamela Stephenson.
The Guardian World News Sanjoy Roy 2011
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