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/ˈCHekər/,
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checkers, plural;
  1. A pattern of squares, typically alternately colored
    • - a geometric shape bordered by checkers
    • - a checker design
  2. A game for two players, with twelve pieces each, played on a checkerboard

  3. A round flat piece, usually red or black, used to play checkers

  1. an attendant who checks coats or baggage
  2. check: mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
  3. one who checks the correctness of something
  4. variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
  5. one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
  6. (checkered) checked: patterned with alternating squares of color
  7. Checkers (known as draughts in the United Kingdom and some other countries), also called American checkers, straight checkers, or simply draught (especially in the United States and Canada), is a form of draughts board game played on an eight by eight squared board (with sixty-four total squares ...
  8. (Checkers (dog)) The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made by United States Senator from California and Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon on television and radio on September 23, 1952. ...
  9. (Checkers (fast food)) Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. is the largest chain of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States. In June 2006, the Company went private through a merger with Taxi Holdings Corp., an affiliate of Wellspring Capital Management, a private equity firm.
  10. (Checkers (novel)) Checkers is a young adult novel by Australian author John Marsden. It was published in 1996 and 1998 by Houghton Mifflin and in 2000 by Laurel Leaf. It is Marsden's twelfth book.
  11. (Checkers (supermarket chain)) Checkers is a FMCG retailer owned by Shoprite Holdings that operates in Southern Africa, with most of its stores in South Africa. Checkers currently has 24 Checkers Hypers and 111 supermarkets operating in South Africa. ...
  12. One who checks something; The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment; A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts); To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard; To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark ...
  13. (checkered) divided into squares, or into light and dark patches; changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty
  14. (checkered) Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
  15. (CHECKERING) A functional decoration applied to pistol grips and forends consisting of pointed pyramids cut into the wood.
  16. (Checkering) A diamond-like pattern for ornamentation or improved gripping. See also Stippling.
  17. (Checkering) A regular pattern of fine grooves cut into the surface of a stock to aid in gripping a gun. Originally done for utility only, checkering has become an art form in itself; craftsmen adorning the borders with ribbons, fleur-de-lys, floral carving, etc. ...
  18. (CHECKERS) a capture game played with opposed tokens that are moved on a checkerboard of contrasts; 'checker' derives from diversify or variegate. ...
  19. (Checkers) Bricks or shapes set in such a way that the hot gases can pass between them in a regenerator chamber.
  20. (Checkers) Sara Markham, Janine Arthy, Ann Kotch, Angela Bristow
  21. (Checkers) Spaniel owned by then-Vice President Richard Nixon. He became famous when Nixon, accused by critics of accepting lavish gifts, went on the offensive and attacked his critics, admitting only to accepting the gift of Checkers. The speech came to be known as "The Checkers Speech":
  22. (Checkers) To dream of playing checkers, you will be involved in difficulties of a serious character, and strange people will come into your life, working you harm. To dream that you win the game, you will succeed in some doubtful enterprise.
  23. (Checkers) a black-and-white raccoon who debuted at Mephit Furmeet 2 and in 1999 was given as a Christmas present to Ripner.
  24. (Checkers) or draughts (pronounced "drafts"), is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces.
  25. (checkers) In a chamber associated with a metallurgical furnace, bricks stacked openly so that heat may be absorbed from the combustion products and later transferred to incoming air when the direction of flow is reversed.