teeter-totter

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Editorial note

" We don't have slides or teeter-totters or 20% time or any of that nonsense.

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Quick take

a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of teeter-totter gathered in one view.

noun

a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

verb

ride on a plank

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for teeter-totter.

noun

a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end

See also: seesaw, teeter, teetertotter, teeterboard

verb

ride on a plank

Example sentences

" We don't have slides or teeter-totters or 20% time or any of that nonsense.

I think I like to go all in on things and so I feel like this chronic teeter-totter is going to be my life for a while.

Probably the lowest in the fun/danger ratio were the teeter-totters.

Flash and chrome have always played teeter-totter with utility and functionality, in every field.

The "teeter-totter" thought experiment on that page is interesting to me in that it seems to illustrate how the future has more possibilities than the past.

Libraryism is the sinister flipside to Not-Invented-Here Syndrome, the same kind of conceptual teeter-totter as arguments around thin vs. thick clients.

It's very convenient to build your knowledge on the fulcrum of every community teeter-totter, the sheet-metal of every bike-shed, the fundamental logic from which all abstractions are born and all abstractions can be decomposed.