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/tʃˈɛkər/ Listen

noun

Checker n. One who checks.

Checker n.

A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

A pattern in checks; a single check.

Checkerwork. Note: This word is also written chequer.

verb

Checker v. t. (past & past part. checkered; pres. part. checkering)

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity. "Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood."

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Etymology of 'Checker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Checker" Quotes from Famous Books

... He is the young man who is checker at the pickle works, and who I told you was Olga's steady company. He has gone away, and ...

— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long

... little violet-sprinkled hollow a small building with many peaks as to its roof, and diamond-paned windows which had been fitted out with colored glass in a hideous checker-work of orange and crimson and blue, which the departed sisters had called, none but themselves knew why, "The Temple." On the south side grew a rose-bush of the kind which flourished most easily in the village, taking most kindly to the soil. It was an ordinary ...

— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... to stop the mean things they are saying about Mary Underwood," she snapped. Then, taking the glasses from her nose, and looking at Tom, who, while he did not find time to give her much help with The Argus, was the best checker player in Caxton and had once been to a state tournament of experts in that sport, she added, "Poor Jane McPherson, to have had a son like Sam and no better father for him than that liar Windy. Choked him, eh? Well, ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

... then in the operator's seat, and they did not call the boys until Washington White made breakfast at daybreak. By that time the Snowbird had passed Lake St. John, far to the north and east, and was heading for Hudson Bay. The earth below them was a checker-board of forest and field, with here and there a ribbon of river, and occasionally a group of farmsteads, or a small town. Suddenly they were forced down, and had to remain many hours for ...

— On a Torn-Away World • Roy Rockwood

... was what this great room was: a charnel-house filled with the spoil of tombs and temples. The dim light fluttered down from quaint, triangular windows, set with a checker-work of brick-red and saffron-colored panes about a central design, a scarlet heart upon a white star, and within that a black scarabaeus. The white background of the walls threw into relief the angular figures on the frieze, scenes from old Egyptian life: games, marriages, feasts ...

— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer

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