Definitions for checkers

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checkers check·er

Spelling: [chek-er]

IPA: /ˈtʃɛk ər/

Checkers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in checkers (cceehkrs).

Definitions for checkers

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.
8. a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
9. 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.
10. a checkered pattern.
11. one of the squares of a checkered pattern.
12. a person or thing that checks.
13. a cashier, as in a supermarket or cafeteria.
14. 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:
4. to mark like a checkerboard.
5. to diversify in color; variegate.
6. to diversify in character; subject to alternations:

Origin of checkers

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

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.

He attempted a game of checkers and lost, which did not tend to make his temper any sweeter.

The higher your score, the more likely it is that you can lip-sync along to the “checkers” Speech.

The number of "go" or checkers, including black and white, is 360.

It's all to do over again, checkers and everything—an' what'll he say to me?

Some were playing cards or checkers, some laughing and joking, and others reading.

They played chess and checkers with him, let him watch soccer matches on TV and eventually gave him a radio.

Three, in jump seats, were a combination of observers and checkers.

It is a game of chess, and not of solitaire, nor even of checkers.

Almost unintentionally he followed the path that led past the checkers of the Hope.

Thwarted Conquest: "I never said anything about checkers, old man!"