checker

Plural: checkers

Noun

• an attendant who checks coats or baggage
• one who checks the correctness of something
• one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers
• 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.
• 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

Verb Forms: checkered, checkering, checkers

• To mark with a pattern of squares; to diversify.
• mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
• variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
• 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.

Examples

• The Words With Friends board began to CHECKER with tiles after several rounds.
• There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.

Synonyms

check, chequer

Related Words

exchequer

Anagrams of checker