Chinese checkersとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Chinese checkers (uncountable) (American spelling)

1. 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.
   • 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman):

     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.