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Chinese checkers en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (US, uncountable) 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 painted the artist, sketching the reverser, who has become the reverse-ed. But this time the suffixed will become the sufferer, and it appears the baby killer is about to kill a baby. 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman):

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Translations (19)

za geizdiuq (board game) · ca dames xineses (board game) · fi kiinanšakki (board game) · cmn 跳棋 (board game) · is kínaskák (board game) · de Halma (board game) · ru ха́льма (board game) · fr dames chinoises (board game) · ru ха́лма (board game) · pl trylma (board game) · es tablero chino (board game) · sv kinaschack (board game) · fi tähtihalma (board game) · yue 波子棋 (board game) · yue 跳棋 (board game) · ja ダイヤモンドゲーム (board game) · es damas chinas (board game) · ru кита́йские ша́шки (board game) · ga táiplis Shíneach (board game)