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Anything used in counting or keeping account. In later times used chiefly in keeping an account or reckoning in games of chance, esp. cards. (These…
A counter representing ten points or fish.
A counter used in card games (U.S.); hence (colloquial) to hand in one's checks: to die. Also to cash, passor send in one's checks. (Originally…