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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. a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces
  2. (checker) an attendant who checks coats or baggage
  3. (checker) check: mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
  4. (checker) one who checks the correctness of something
  5. (checker) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
  6. (checker) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
  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. 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 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 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 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. Checkers employs over 16 000 employees and targets the higher LSM's 8 - 10.
  12. (checker) 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 ...
  13. (Checker) One of the fifteen markers, all of one color, that a player moves around the board according to rolls of the dice. Also known as men, pieces, stones, or counters.
  14. (CHECKER) A company spy, particularly one checking up on loss of materials or of the receipts of an agent or conductor
  15. (CHECKER) [1 K.7:17] variegate cover with crossing lines.
  16. (Checker) A Racing Homer with colored checked patterns on the top surface of its wings.
  17. (Checker) Accounts department.
  18. (Checker) The part of this COBOL system that checks the syntax of your COBOL source program and produces intermediate code. See also intermediate code.
  19. (Checker) This is a term that refers to a player whose job it is to try and keep the other team from scoring.
  20. (Checker) a colored, circular playing piece, also called a ‘man’, used to play a game of checkers.
  21. (Checker) a geometric pattern consisting of regularly spaced squares of alternating color.
  22. (Checker) a pigment which consists of alternating blocks of color. (Language Reference)
  23. (checker) The employee who completes the exchange of merchandise for payment.
  24. 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.
  25. a capture game played with opposed tokens that are moved on a checkerboard of contrasts; 'checker' derives from diversify or variegate. Variations of the game existed in Egypt and India before its adoption in Europe, where it has been called polis, alquerque, demos, morris, and draughts. ...