<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a board marked off into 64 squares of two alternating colors, arranged in eight vertical and eight horizontal rows, on which checkers or chess is played</li><li>a design resembling this: The garden was laid out in a checkerboard</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to arrange in or mark with a checkerboard pattern: a wall checkerboarded with black and white tiles</li></ul>