Checker or chequer or ''variant'', may refer to:
People
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Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American rock and roll singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including The Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighte ...
(born 1941), American singer-songwriter best known for popularizing The Twist
* Tarasha Checker, prettiest girl in West Delhi
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Checker, a game piece in the board game
''Checkers'' (UK: ''draughts'')
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Checker Records
Checker Records is an inactive record label that was started in 1952 as a subsidiary of Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois. The label was founded by the Chess brothers, Leonard and Phil, who ran the label until they sold it to General Recorded ...
, a record label
Brands and enterprises
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Checker Motors Corporation
Checker Motors Corporation was a Kalamazoo, Michigan, vehicle manufacturer and tier-one subcontractor that manufactured taxicabs used by Checker Taxi. Morris Markin established the company in 1922, initially named the Checker Cab Manufacturing ...
, built Checker taxis
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Checker Taxi
Checker Taxi was a dominant taxicab company and national franchisor that was based in Chicago, Illinois. Checker Motors was an American vehicle manufacturer based in Kalamazoo, Michigan that built the iconic Checker Taxicab, sold commercially a ...
, a taxi service founded by Morris Markin
Other uses
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Check (pattern)
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares. The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the chec ...
, also called checker or checkered, a pattern consisting of squares of alternating colors
*Checker, the action that produces ''checkering'', a surface applied to wooden gunstocks to provide a non-slip grip (see
Gunsmith
A gunsmith is a person who repairs, modifies, designs, or builds guns. The occupation differs from an armorer, who usually replaces only worn parts in standard firearms. Gunsmiths do modifications and changes to a firearm that may require a very h ...
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Checkerboard
A checkerboard (American English) or chequerboard (British English; see spelling differences) is a board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played. Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (8×8) of altern ...
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Checkers (disambiguation)
Checkers, or draughts, is a board game.
Checkers or chequers may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Checkers'' (1913 film), a 1913 lost American silent film with Gertrude Shipman
* ''Checkers'' (1919 film), a 1919 lost America ...
, including ''chequers''
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Check (disambiguation)
Check or cheque, may refer to:
Places
* Check, Virginia
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Check'' (film), a 2021 Indian Telugu-language film
* ''The Checks'' (episode), a 1996 TV episode of ''Seinfeld''
Games and sports
* Check (chess), a thr ...
, including ''cheque''
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Draft (disambiguation)
Draft, The Draft, or Draught may refer to:
Watercraft dimensions
* Draft (hull), the distance from waterline to keel of a vessel
* Draft (sail), degree of curvature in a sail
* Air draft, distance from waterline to the highest point on a vesse ...
, including ''draught''
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