STAGGERS

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Definition

noun
  1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion
    “the stagger of a drunken man”
  2. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
    “apoplectic or sleepy staggers”
  3. Bewilderment; perplexity.
  4. The spacing out of various actions over time.
  5. The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
verb
  1. Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
  2. Doubt, waver, be shocked.
  3. Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
noun
  1. Any of various diseases of animals that affects the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs

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