checker
1noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
Origin of checker
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2noun
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2Related Words for checkers
detective, monitor, investigator, auditor, controller, patchwork, inspector, appraiser, interrogator, inquisitor, sleuth, overseer, reviewer, tester, scrutinizer, assessor, plaid, variegation, motley, tessellationExamples from the Web for checkers
Contemporary Examples of checkers
The higher your score, the more likely it is that you can lip-sync along to the “Checkers” Speech.
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.
Thwarted Conquest: "I never said anything about checkers, old man!"
Historical Examples of checkers
He attempted a game of checkers and lost, which did not tend to make his temper any sweeter.
The Depot MasterJoseph C. Lincoln
It's all to do over again, checkers and everything—an' what'll he say to me?
"Captains Courageous"Rudyard Kipling
Some were playing cards or checkers, some laughing and joking, and others reading.
The ClansmanThomas Dixon
It is a game of chess, and not of solitaire, nor even of checkers.
Over the TeacupsOliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Almost unintentionally he followed the path that led past the Checkers of the Hope.
The LifeboatR.M. Ballantyne