checkerboard
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Noun edit
checkerboard (plural checkerboards)
- A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
- A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.
- (film) A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.
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- (board for draughts): draughtboard
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pattern of squares of alternating colours
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game board
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Verb edit
checkerboard (third-person singular simple present checkerboards, present participle checkerboarding, simple past and past participle checkerboarded)
- (transitive) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.