Divided into squares, or into light and dark patches. / (figuratively) Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.

simple past tense and past participle of checker

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of checker

plural of checker

(board games, US, Canada, in the singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.

One who 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.

(transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts). / A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard. / An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

plural of checkering