Definitions for checker

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Spelling: [chek-er]

IPA: /ˈtʃɛk ər/

Checker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in checker (cceehkr).

Definitions for checker

noun

1. a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
2. checkers. Also called, British, draughts. (used with a singular verb) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard. (in a regenerative furnace) loosely stacked brickwork through which furnace gases and incoming air are passed in turn, so that the heat of the exhaust is absorbed and later transferred to the incoming air.
3. a checkered pattern.
4. one of the squares of a checkered pattern.
5. a person or thing that checks.
6. a cashier, as in a supermarket or cafeteria.
7. a person who checks coats, baggage, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark like a checkerboard.
2. to diversify in color; variegate.
3. to diversify in character; subject to alternations:

Origin of checker

1250-1300; Middle English checker chessboard Anglo-French escheker (by aphesis), equivalent to eschec check¹ + -er Examples for checker

The first hint of trouble was a call from a checker to the front office.

As he handed them to the checker, he looked casually around.

In order to get the checker effect, the weave must now change.

Maybe she would like to read about checker debates or the like.

Frankston, with a violent gesture, swept the checker board clean.

Beyond the blue mountains, the driver drew the car into the checker stand.

It seemed, at first, little better than his old job as watchman and checker.

"That's the checker, my boy," said Yellow Pine, when he saw the fish.

The checker pigs had checker bibs on, the striped pigs had striped bibs on.

"That's the checker," she said, and disappeared with a click of the tongue.