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Tic-tac-toe   /tɪk-tæk-toʊ/   Listen
Tic-tac-toe

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe.





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"Tic-tac-toe" Quotes from Famous Books



... letter was unduly received. There may be hidden fifths, and if there are, it shows how dam spontaneous the thing was. I could tinker and tic-tac-toe on a piece of paper, but scorned the act with a Threnody, which was poured forth like blood and water on the groaning organ. If your heart (which was what I addressed) remained unmoved, let us refer to the affair no more: crystallised emotion, the statement and ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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