Definition of "checker" in English

noun

1. One who or that which checks or verifies something.

2. One who makes a check mark.

3. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.

   • There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.

4. One who hinders or stops something.

noun

1. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.

2. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.

3. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

verb

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

2. (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

noun

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