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Checkers   /tʃˈɛkərz/   Listen
Checkers

noun
1.
A checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces.  Synonym: draughts.


Checker

noun
1.
An attendant who checks coats or baggage.
2.
One who checks the correctness of something.
3.
One of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers.  Synonym: chequer.
verb
(past & past part. checkered; pres. part. checkering)
1.
Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on.  Synonyms: check, chequer.
2.
Variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns.  Synonym: chequer.



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"Checkers" Quotes from Famous Books



... and his helpers worked at their wireless, and at night they sat in with the light-ship crew. Bowen usually played checkers in the cabin with the keeper, Nelson, and while they played the keeper gave him the gossip. He had been nineteen years on Tide Rip Shoal light-ship, ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
... had a big passel of carpenters down from the city, and inside of three months the buildin' was up, and she was a daisy, now I tell you. There was a readin' room and a meetin' room and an 'amusement room.' The amusements was crokinole and parchesi and checkers and the like of that. Also there was a gymnasium and a place where you could play the pianner and sing—till the sufferin' got acute and somebody come along and ...
— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln
... the Faust march, which the captain is playing upon a wheezy old accordion, fail to put any expression of animation into the woebegone faces around the cabin table. Mahood pretends that he is all right, and plays checkers with the captain with an air of assumed tranquillity which approaches heroism, but he is observed at irregular intervals to go suddenly and unexpectedly on deck, and to return every time with a more ghastly and ...
— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan
... his uncle. "Come, Ann, we will leave Leila to make friends with the new cousin. Try John at checkers, Leila. She defeats ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... fine cultivation—the yellow crops of grain, running like golden bays into the green woodland that clothes the sides and tops of all the hills, the wheat, the grass, the oats, and the maize, all making different checkers in the pretty variegated patchwork covering of the ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble


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