[V] to stand or move in an unsteady way so that you look as if you are going to fall:
She teetered after him in her high-heeled shoes.
IDIOMS
teeter on the brink / edge of sth to be very close to a very unpleasant or dangerous situation:
The country is teetering on the brink of civil war.
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