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checked

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //t͡ʃɛkt//

Marked with a check mark.

adjective

  1. 1

    Marked with a check mark.

  2. 2

    Having a pattern of checks; checkered.

    a checked tie

    At that moment a long, scraggy individual in a checked suit poked his head into the bar, looked around portentously, whistled mysteriously to my informant, and jerked his thumb and head in the direction of the door.

    Later that day, all X's friends put on their red and white checked overalls and went over to see X.

  3. 3

    Of syllables, having a coda.

  4. 4

    Of consonants, glottalized.

  5. 5

    Verified or validated in some way.

    a computer program using checked arithmetic

  6. 6

    Delivered to the airline (or train line, ferry, etc.), usually during check-in, to be stored in an inaccessible area to the passenger (the hold) during the flight (or other journey).

  7. 7

    Of a letter square in a crossword grid, part of both an across word and a down word.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of checksimple past and past participle of check

    He checked his watch for the third time.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).