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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi चक्कर (cakkar), from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, cycle, cyclus, and wheel.
Pronunciation
Noun
chukker (plural chukkers)
- 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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