verb
- past tense of king; made a king piece in checkers by reaching the opposite end of the board
- past tense of king; made someone a king or treated someone like a king
Usage: games
Usage: rare
Examples
- She kinged her checker piece and smiled triumphantly.
- The red checker was kinged after reaching the far row.
- Once kinged, the piece could move backward as well as forward.
- The community kinged him after his heroic actions.
- They kinged the young prince in a grand ceremony.
- His checker got kinged on the very next move.