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Checkerboard

Check′er-board

(chĕk′ẽr-bōrdˊ)
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Noun.
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers, chess, or draughts.

Definition 2024


checkerboard

checkerboard

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Noun

checkerboard (plural checkerboards)

  1. A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
  2. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers.

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checkerboard (third-person singular simple present checkerboards, present participle checkerboarding, simple past and past participle checkerboarded)

  1. (transitive) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.