a form of vertigo associated with decompression sickness
2. Also called: blind staggers
a disease of horses and some other domestic animals characterized by a swaying unsteady gait, caused by infection, toxins, or lesions of the central nervous system
Examples of 'staggers' in a sentence
staggers
A man staggers out of the shed through a side door, clutching his ribs with his left hand, a gun in his right.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
He staggers and then, in a comical slow-mo, sinks down to one side.