ticktacktoe

tick-tack-toe

also tick·tack·toe  (tĭk′tăk′tō′)

n.

Variants of tic-tac-toe.

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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.

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[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.

ticktacktoe - a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does noughts and crosses, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe board game - a game played on a specially designed board

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