What does «cachumbambé» mean in Spanish?

• Children's playground equipment also called see-saw or seesaw. An apparatus of a children's amusement park that consists of a plank supported at its center by a base and each child stands on one end, allowing the children to balance.
  
  ♦ Used in: Cuba
  
  Examples of use in Spanish: "El parque tiene un cachumbambé (también llamado subibaja) que parece unas tijeras".
  
  
• It is used figuratively to say that "life is a cachumbambé", that it goes up and down. Examples of figurative use: "Cuban tourism, in cachumbambé: it goes up, but it goes down". "GDP will continue to rock hopelessly in the cachumbambé of setbacks and slowdowns".
  
  ♦ Used in: Cuba

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