chukker

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UK/ˈtʃʌ.kə/US/ˈt͡ʃʌ.kɚ/

noun

Any of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.

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chukka
OriginHindi चक्कर ← Sanskrit चक्र →
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Meanings

nounchukker (plural chukkers)

plural chukkers · alternative chucker · alternative chukka · alternative chukkar

  1. Any of the six playing periods, each 7½ minutes long, of a game of polo.

    ‘Let's have another chukker.’

    1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 52

Synonyms & antonyms

noun(polo) one of six divisions into which a polo match is divided

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chukka
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chukka

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Sanskritचक्र
  2. Hindiचक्कर
  3. Englishchukker

Borrowed from Hindi चक्कर (cakkar), from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra). Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, cycle, cyclus, kike, and wheel.

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Translations

Finnish erä
  • eräplaying period in polo

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with chukker

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Cite this entry
APA

chukker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chukker

MLA

“chukker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chukker. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chukker,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chukker.

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