Checker (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
  2. checkers,
    • 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.
verb (used with object)
  1. to mark like a checkerboard.
  2. to diversify in color; variegate.
  3. to diversify in character; subject to alternations: Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.
noun
  1. a person or thing that checks.
  2. a cashier, as in a supermarket or cafeteria.
  3. a person who checks coats, baggage, etc.
noun, verb
  1. the usual US spelling of chequer
noun
  1. textiles a variant spelling of chequer (def. 2)
  2. any one of the 12 flat thick discs used by each player in the game of checkers
noun mainly US and Canadian
  1. a cashier, esp in a supermarket
  2. an attendant in a cloakroom, left-luggage office, etc
Checker (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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