stagger

Tire stagger

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
  • Doubt, waver, be shocked.
  • Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).

Origin

  • From Middle English stageren, stakeren, from Old Norse stakra. Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.
  • stag + -er

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