Checkers, or draughts, is a board game.
Checkers or chequers may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Checkers'' (1913 film), a 1913 lost American silent film with Gertrude Shipman
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''Checkers'' (1919 film), a 1919 lost American melodrama silent film
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''Checkers'' (1937 film), a 1937 American drama film
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''Checkers'' (novel), a young-adult fiction novel by Australian author John Marsden
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The Checkers (American band)
The Checkers were an American doo-wop group formed in 1952. Bill Brown formed the Checkers after leaving the Dominoes. The Members were John Carnegie (Lead 1), Charlie White (lead 2) from The Clovers, James Turner "Buddy" Brewer (Baritone), Irw ...
, a doo-wop group of the 1950s
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The Checkers (Japanese band)
The Checkers (Japanese: チェッカーズ) was a very popular Japanese band in the 1980s. They were a pop icon of their time as kids copied hair styles and fashion of the band members. The band was formed in Kurume-city, Fukuoka Pref. by Toru ...
, a Japanese idol group of the 1980s
Brands and enterprises
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Checkers (fast food)
Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. is a chain of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States. The company operates Checkers and Rally's restaurants in 28 states, and the District of Columbia. They specialize in hamburgers, hot dogs, fren ...
, an American fast food restaurant chain
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Checkers (supermarket chain)
Checkers is a FMCG retailer owned by Shoprite that operates in Southern Africa. Checkers currently has 37 Checkers Hypers and 202 Checkers supermarkets operating in Botswana, South Africa and Namibia. The supermarket chain focuses more strongly ...
, a supermarket chain in South Africa
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Checkers Food Stores, a Channel Islands supermarket chain
Ice hockey teams
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Charlotte Checkers, American Hockey League team
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Columbus Checkers
The Columbus Checkers were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the International Hockey League from 1966 to 1970, and the first professional hockey team in Columbus, Ohio.
Their first game was against the Chicago Blackhawks of the Na ...
, a former team
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Indianapolis Checkers, a defunct team
* Oakland Checkers, part of the
California Hockey League from 1930 to 1933
Other uses
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Checkers speech, made by Richard Nixon in 1952, mentioning his dog named Checkers
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Chequers
Chequers ( ), or Chequers Court, is the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A 16th-century manor house in origin, it is located near the village of Ellesborough, halfway between Princes Risborough and Wendover in Bucking ...
, the country residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Chequers plan
The Chequers plan, officially known as ''The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union (Cm 9593)'', was a UK Government white paper concerning Brexit, published on 12July 2018 by the prime minister, Theresa May. The ...
, the informal name for the future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union
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Sorbus torminalis'' or Checkers tree, a tree species
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Charlotte Checkers (disambiguation) Charlotte Checkers is an American Hockey League team.
Charlotte Checkers may also refer to:
*Charlotte Checkers (1956–1977), a defunct team in the Eastern Hockey League and Southern Hockey League, 1956–1977
*Charlotte Checkers (1993–2010), a ...
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Check (disambiguation), including ''cheque''
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Checker (disambiguation)
Checker or chequer or ''variant'', may refer to:
People
*Chubby Checker (born 1941), American singer-songwriter best known for popularizing The Twist
* Tarasha Checker, prettiest girl in West Delhi
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Checker, a ga ...
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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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