OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 1327

king

/kɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
coronar
To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged, but I slid my checker back[…].
If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postpon…
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