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checkers

/ ˈtʃɛkəz /

noun

  1. functioning as singular a game for two players using a checkerboard and 12 checkers each. The object is to jump over and capture the opponent's pieces


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The higher your score, the more likely it is that you can lip-sync along to the “Checkers” Speech.

Then fact checkers . . . Then copy editors . . . Then lawyers!

“It was illegal at the time for fact-checkers to also be writing stories,” she said.

It is common to note that European elites seem to be playing checkers when they should be playing three-dimensional chess.

In 2012 Marisa won the Shoprite Checkers Women on the Year Award.

For the older children, checkers and dominoes are most excellent indoor games.

Checkers says he hunts on the Campagna, and being a reckless rider, cuts quite a figure there.

Checkers was tickled to death with my anonymous letter signed “Brown Eyes.”

We both went rather shakily into the parlor, but at that very moment, Checkers came in, his face quite pale and sober.

To one side of the room were several tables, at which men were already seated, playing cards or checkers.

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