checker

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Etymology 1

From check +‎ -er.

Noun

checker (plural checkers)

  1. One who or that which checks or verifies something.
  2. One who makes a check mark.
    • 1989, M. Manfred Fabritius, William Borges, Saving the Savings and Loan:
      "Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."
  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.
    • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:
      Bud Brown said something to the checker he was supervising; she had been craning around to see what was happening. She flushed and began to run her calculator again.
  4. One who hinders or stops something.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (chessboard), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.

Noun

checker (plural checkers)

  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.
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Verb

A flag with a checker pattern

checker (third-person singular simple present checkers, present participle checkering, simple past and past participle checkered)

  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.

Etymology 3

Alteration of chequer.

Noun

checker (plural checkers)

  1. The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis
Usage notes
  • Almost always spelled chequer, because the tree itself is native to areas where that spelling is used, and is pretty much unknown in areas that use the other spelling.
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French

Etymology

From English to check.

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Verb

checker

  1. to check, verify
  2. (reflexive, reciprocal, slang) to bump fists

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