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Chinese chequers

Chinese chequers is the alternative spelling of Chinese checkers.

Meaning of Chinese checkers

Noun

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)

Questions about Chinese chequers

What is Chinese chequers the alternative spelling of?
Chinese chequers is the alternative spelling of Chinese checkers.

Words near Chinese chequers in the dictionary

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

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