ticktacktoe
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tick-tack-toe
also tick·tack·toe (tĭk′tăk′tō′)n.
Variants of tic-tac-toe.
tic-tac-toe
also tick-tack-toe or tick·tack·toe (tĭk′tăk′tō′)n.
A game played by two people, each trying to make a line of three X's or three O's in a boxlike figure with nine spaces.
[Probably imitative of the sounds of the original children's game, in which players brought pencils down on a numbered slate with their eyes shut.]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() board game - a game played on a specially designed board |
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