HOW TO PRONOUNCE
checker
/ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/
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What does checker mean?
noun
- One who or that which checks or verifies something.
- One who makes a check mark.
- The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
More meanings (7)
noun
- One who hinders or stops something.
- A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
- A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
- An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
- The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
verb
- To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
- To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/
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Suddenly your adversary’s checker disappears beneath the board, and the problem is to place yours nearest to where his will appear again.
The first thing a Checker player has to know is what superiority in material or position is required to FORCE a win in the ending.
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Almost all of the folding checker boards are marked on the reverse side for backgammon, and the fifteen men of each color in a checker set are intended for backgammon players.