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checkusers

checkusers is the plural of checkuser.

Meaning of checkuser

Noun

checkuser (plural checkusers)

  1. (wiki jargon) A user who is granted access to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify sock puppets etc.
    • Essjay is serving a second term as chair of the mediation committee. He is also an admin, a bureaucrat, and a checkuser, which means that he is one of fourteen Wikipedians authorized to trace IP addresses in cases of suspected abuse.2006, The New Yorker, volume 82, numbers 20-28, page 41

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Noun capitalized: CheckUsers

CheckUsers

  1. (plural) plural of CheckUser

Questions about checkusers

What is checkusers the plural of?
Checkusers is the plural of checkuser.
What part of speech is checkusers?
Checkusers is a noun.

Words near checkusers in the dictionary

  1. checkup
  2. checkup from the neck up
  3. checkups
  4. checkups from the neck up
  5. checkuser
  6. checkusers
  7. checkweigh
  8. checkweighed
  9. checkweigher
  10. checkweighers
  11. checkweighing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: checkusers (page history and authors); CheckUsers (page history and authors); checkuser (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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