[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a board off into 64 squares of two alternating colors, arranged in eight vertical and eight horizontal rows, on which checkers checker chess is played.", "a design resembling this:The garden was laid out in a checkerboard."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to arrange in or mark with a checkerboard pattern:a wall checkerboarded with black and white tiles."]}]