What is "chukker"

Usage examples of "chukker".

Confound it, sir, you have just fifty round to a chukker and you must make them count!

He knew from many a chukker of polo that it meant that he was strung to the breaking point, ready to explode into action.

What the hell difference does it make if I never play another chukker of polo again?

Obviously the intent was not only to get the smelly, sweaty group cleaned up but to get them some more practice riding, so Herzer reluctantly walked over to the corral after the last chukker and whistled up Diablo.

He was so manifestly a bird who, having failed to score in the first chukker, would turn the thing up and spend the rest of his life brooding over his newts and growing long grey whiskers, like one of those chaps you read about in novels, who live in the great white house you can just see over there through the trees and shut themselves off from the world and have pained faces.

Russell watched, lifted glossy chukker boots up to the surface and leaned back.

French in the fourth chukker, when the French number three, with an offside neck shot, sent the ball toward the American goal.

Woody was brilliant during the first three chukkers, scoring two goals in each one and being cheered on by the roaring crowd.