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Checkers   /tʃˈɛkərz/   Listen
Checkers

noun
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.  Synonym: draughts.



Checker

noun
1.
An attendant who checks coats or baggage.
2.
One who checks the correctness of something.
3.
One of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers.  Synonym: chequer.
verb
(past & past part. checkered; pres. part. checkering)
1.
Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on.  Synonyms: check, chequer.
2.
Variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns.  Synonym: chequer.



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"Checkers" Quotes from Famous Books



... us great pleasure to see the ease with which you performed your task. You must have been practising for weeks. This relieves, somewhat, the anxiety under which we have been suffering and makes us think that we would enjoy a game of checkers once more. How long a time will it take for your creation to be thoroughly done, so that it may ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various

... two watches mingled forward, smoking opium and playing a game that looked like checkers. Three of them were washing down the decks with kaiar brooms. For the first time since he had come on board Wilbur heard the sound ...
— Moran of the Lady Letty • Frank Norris

... next morning, know that long before eight o'clock Mr. Jack stood at a certain window, his eyes unswervingly fixed on the gray towers of Sunnycrest. What David did know, however, was that just after eight, Mr. Jack strode through the room where he and Jill were playing checkers, flung himself into his hat and coat, and then fairly leaped down the steps toward the path that led to the footbridge at the ...
— Just David • Eleanor H. Porter

... iron goods, stoves, wood and brass products, carriages and wagons, brick and tile, shirts, collars and cuffs, clothing and knit goods, shoes, flour, tobacco, cigars, billiard balls, dominoes and checkers. ...
— The Greatest Highway in the World • Anonymous

... the dining-room, the family sitting-room of evenings, where Theodore had engaged his father at checkers. Hen, dropping into a chair by the sofa as if she were rather tired, asked Cally for gossip of the gay world, but Cally answered briefly out of regard for the chasm between: how contract the name and fame of Mr. Canning to fit this shabby little "parlor"? Hen was thin, colorless, ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison


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