tick-tack-toe
or tick-tack-too tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe
a simple game in which one player marks down only X's and another only O's, each alternating in filling in any of the nine compartments of a figure formed by two vertical lines crossed by two horizontal lines, the winner being the first to fill in three marks in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row.
a children's game consisting of trying, with the eyes shut, to bring a pencil down upon one of a set of circled numbers, as on a slate, the number touched being counted as a score.
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How to use tick-tack-toe in a sentence
We may be seen that way, but there's no use spending any more time here playing tick-tack-toe on that wood up there.
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British Dictionary definitions for tick-tack-toe
tick-tack-too (ˌtɪktækˈtuː)
/ (ˌtɪktækˈtəʊ) /
US and Canadian a game in which two players, one using a nought, "O", the other a cross, "X", alternately mark one square out of nine formed by two pairs of crossed lines, the winner being the first to get three of his symbols in a row: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): noughts and crosses
Origin of tick-tack-toe
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