checkered
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- adjective
- /ˈtʃɛkərd/
- US
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a cuadros
- The tablecloth was beautifully designed with a checkered pattern in red and white.
- checkered shirt
- checkered blouse
- checkered coat
Examples
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At twilight, Buddy would come downstairs in his checkered coat and stand by the heavy winter door, with the rubber insulation torn up the side, looking out the windowpane at the road that hugged their house.
Fiction book (1993) -
The checkered flag is out.
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And here he goes for the checkered flag!
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Here they go for the checkered flag!
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Checkered flag, here I come!
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One of these two men will be world champion when the checkered flag falls.
Blog text (32) -
The checkered flag beckons the Australian.
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Hines would cross the line ninth when the checkered flag flew.
Blog text (2) -
In the number 44 car, it's Chuck Cranston crossing the line first for the checkered flag!
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In the booths, men and women in checkered shirts and dresses nodded, half-asleep, over coffee.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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Covered with a repeated design of lines, shapes, or colors
A cloth pattern made of squares in different colors, like on shirts or tablecloths
Having small, even checks made by thin colored lines on a light background
Divided into squares or boxes by lines to show parts
Compounds
A harmless tan and brown snake with an arrow-shaped spot on its head and sometimes red stripes
A garden flower with hanging bell-shaped petals patterned with purple checks
Surface Forms
Morphology
checkered = checker (transparent) = checker + ed
The adjective 'checkered' is transparently derived from the noun 'checker' with the addition of the suffix '-ed'.
Etymology
Checkered comes from an old word for a 'chessboard' and the familiar checkerboard, which has light and dark squares that repeat. So checkered means having a pattern of alternating squares.