Chinese checkers: Meaning and Definition of

Chi'nese check'ers

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. a board game for two to six players each of whom has ten marbles resting in holes on a player's section of a six-pointed star: the winner is the first to move all of his or her marbles to the opposite side by jumping intervening pieces or moving to adjacent holes that are unoccupied.
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