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"(intransitive) To tilt back and forth on an edge."
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"categories": [
"American English",
"Canadian English"
],
"glosses": [
"A teeter-totter or seesaw."
],
"links": [
[
"Canada",
"Canada"
],
[
"US",
"American English"
],
[
"teeter-totter",
"teeter-totter"
],
[
"seesaw",
"seesaw"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Canada, US) A teeter-totter or seesaw."
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtiːtə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtitəɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈtʰiɾɚ]",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-teeter.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-teeter.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-teeter.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-teeter.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-teeter.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "teeter"
}
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