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chinese checkers

chinese checkers is the alternative form of Chinese checkers.

Noun (1) capitalized: Chinese Checkers

Chinese Checkers (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Chinese checkers.

Noun (2) capitalized: Chinese checkers

Chinese checkers (uncountable)

  1. (US) A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.
    • This is no longer a clue. It's a game. You may have just gotten checkmate, but we're playing Chinese checkers, and as my old friend Confucius say; the hunter has become the hunter-ed. The chaser has become the chosed. Dame Fortuna has had her franking privileges revoked. It seems the portrait has...2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman)

Forms of chinese checkers

alternative USChinese Checkers
alternative USchinese checkers
alternative UKChinese chequers

Questions about chinese checkers

What does chinese checkers mean?
Chinese checkers means a board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.
What is chinese checkers the alternative form of?
Chinese checkers is the alternative form of Chinese checkers.
What part of speech is chinese checkers?
Chinese checkers is a noun.

Words near chinese checkers in the dictionary

  1. Chinese cassia
  2. Chinese celeries
  3. Chinese celery
  4. Chinese character
  5. Chinese characters
  6. chinese checkers
  7. Chinese chequers
  8. Chinese cherries
  9. Chinese cherry
  10. Chinese chess
  11. Chinese chicken salad

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