Goes back and forth on something?

Usage examples of teeters.

I doubted that the Teeters bothered with life jackets while shrimping, and that doubt was verified by young Willie's amused expression.

After your adventure with the Teeters, you're probably a minor celebrity around here.

I launch the cue ball gently across the table, and it kisses the 8 ball lovingly and sends it smooth and easy toward the 13, and it seems to almost detour around the 13 as though on rails, and plops decorously into the hole, and Clare laughs, but then the 13 teeters, and falls.

In the words of Barnes and Teeters (1949), "Most offenses are committed through greed, not need.

By 1949, Barnes and Teeters stated flatly, "It is primarily the moralist who still believes that crime does not pay.