teeter-totter
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- noun
- /ˈtiːtərˌtɔːtər/
- US
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- I counted five two-by-four milk stools, along with a coffee table that could have been used as a small teeter-totter, a board that Richie McPherson claimed was a shelf, and several items I couldn't identify.
- end of the teeter-totter
You got to have somebody on the other end of that, that teeter totter.
- You got to have somebody on the other end of that, that teeter totter.
Examples
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If we change our perspective to a number line below the teeter-totter, with 0 at the fulcrum, then the values on the left will be negative.
Blog text (7) -
To think about this, we first imagine a teeter-totter.
Blog text (7) -
I let the end of the teeter-totter drop to the ground and ran down it.
Fiction book (1995) -
I was playing on the teeter-totter, and the next thing I knew I was on the ground, and my knee hurt
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At the playground, I walk up the down end of the teeter-totter until I get to the middle.
Fiction book (1995) -
Put the seven books on one end of a teeter-totter and the pig on the other, and there is no contest.
Fiction book (1994) -
Experiments show that the weights times the distances from the fulcrum must be equal on the two sides for the teeter-totter to balance.
Blog text (7) -
At the fall picnic on a Sunday, Michael sat on one end of a teeter-totter in a park along the river, languidly watching the accounting department take on the marketing department as part of an exciting volleyball tournament organized by the dean and his secretary.
Fiction book (1993) -
The children took turns riding the teeter-totter at the playground, giggling as they went up and down.
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She helped her little brother climb onto the teeter-totter so they could play together during recess.
Synonyms
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A long board balanced in the middle that two children ride up and down
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A long board balanced in the middle that children ride up and down in a playground
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A long narrow board balanced in the middle that people ride up and down
A long board balanced in the middle that children ride up and down
A long board balanced in the middle that children sit on and move up and down
A long board balanced in the middle that children ride up and down
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Morphology
Etymology
Teeter-totter comes from two playful words, teeter and totter, that both suggest 'move unsteadily' or 'rock back and forth' and even sound like the motion. So a teeter-totter is a long board that goes up and down when children ride it, just like a seesaw.