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/tʃˈɛkər/ Listen

noun

Checker n. One who checks.

Checker n.

A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

A pattern in checks; a single check.

Checkerwork. Note: This word is also written chequer.

verb

Checker v. t. (past & past part. checkered; pres. part. checkering)

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity. "Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood."

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Etymology of 'Checker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Checker" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Seth's expense account after he found the Lucky Cuss. I see the courts have decided against the widow and children, and so they'll have to worry off about five or six millions for the poor lady he duped so outrageously—with a checker on the chips. ...

— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... covers, were two candlesticks formed by three silver swans twisting their necks around a golden quiver. Near the fireplace an easy chair a la Voltaire, covered with one of the pieces of tapestry of checker-board pattern, which little girls and old women make, extended its empty arms. Two little Italian landscapes, a flower piece in water-colors after Bertin, with a date in red ink at the bottom, and a few miniatures hung ...

— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

... take a pride in its natural beauty; and there are no filthy alleys, no squalid poverty, or uncleanly hovels. Every house appears to be of stone; the walls neatly whitewashed, and bordered with pink, red, blue, green, or yellow; and the streets are fashioned to suit the grounds, without regard to checker-board regularity. ...

— Mexico and its Religion • Robert A. Wilson

... living in the village, where the young men, finding plenty of small game to support life, and yielding to the languor and indolence produced by a summer's sun, played at checker's, or drank, or slept, from morn till night, and seemed to forget that they were the greatest warriors and hunters in the world. This did very well for a time; but, as I said, Chaske got tired of it. So he determined to go on a long journey, where ...

— Dahcotah - Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling • Mary Eastman

... plant hedges and forest trees and checker the country with windbreaks until days like this will belong only to an old pioneer's memory," Asher said, as the ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

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