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adjective
1.
marked by numerous and various shifts or changes; variegated: a checkered career.
2.
marked by dubious episodes; suspect in character or quality: a checkered past.
3.
marked with squares: a checkered fabric.
4.
diversified in color; alternately light and shadowed: the checkered shade beneath trees.
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Checkered
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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noun
1.
a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
2.
checkers,
a.
Also called, British, draughts. (used with a singular verb) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard.
b.
(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)
5.
to mark like a checkerboard.
6.
to diversify in color; variegate.
7.
to diversify in character; subject to alternations: Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.
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