chukker

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi चक्कर (cakkar), from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, cycle, cyclus, and wheel.

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Noun

chukker (plural chukkers)

  1. One of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.
    • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 52:
      ‘Let's have another chukker.’

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