Usually means: Walk unsteadily, as if drunk.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stagger: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stagger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stagger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stagger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stagger: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stagger, stagger: Wordnik
  7. stagger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stagger: Wiktionary
  9. stagger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stagger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stagger: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stagger: Dictionary.com
  13. stagger: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. stagger: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Stagger (aeronautics), Stagger (aviation), Stagger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stagger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stagger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stagger: Rhymezone
  19. stagger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stagger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. stagger: Free Dictionary
  22. stagger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. stagger: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. stagger: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. stagger: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stagger: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. stagger: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stagger: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stagger, stagger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stagger: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Stagger: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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noun:  An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
noun:  (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
noun:  Bewilderment; perplexity.
noun:  The spacing out of various actions over time.
noun:  (motor racing) 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.
noun:  (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
verb:  To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
verb:  (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
verb:  (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
verb:  Doubt, waver, be shocked.
verb:  (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
verb:  (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
verb:  To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
verb:  To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
verb:  To schedule in intervals or at different times.
noun:  (UK) One who attends a stag night.

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