tic-tac-toe

American  

[tik-tak-toh] / ˌtɪk tækˈtoʊ /

noun

1. a variant of tick-tack-toe.

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Example Sentences

Leaving the library as the center of the museum’s north side, Mr. Adjaye made eight other slightly smaller pavilions, which he grouped in the form of a slightly disheveled tic-tac-toe board.

From The Wall Street Journal

“This is a team that plays well defensively, so there might not be tic-tac-toe kind of goals,” Islanders coach Patrick Roy said Sunday.

From Seattle Times

They entertained themselves with intense tic-tac-toe matches at a cafeteria table.

From Seattle Times

Vegas got the scoring going early in the first period when Mark Stone, Brett Howden and Stephenson played tic-tac-toe in the offensive zone.

From Washington Times

As Walsh wrote in American Scientist, “That trait may be part of what makes the game so addictive; if it were as easy to solve as tic-tac-toe, for instance, it wouldn’t be nearly as engaging.”

From Scientific American