To tilt back and forth on an edge.
To be close to becoming a typically negative situation.
To be indecisive.
A teeter-totter or seesaw.
To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
Twisted, bent, crooked.
Distortion.