tit-tat-toe

American  

[tit-tat-toh] / ˌtɪt tætˈtoʊ /

noun

1. a variant of tick-tack-toe.

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Example Sentences

Here and there were stealthy games of tit-tat-toe, practiced, doubtless, behind the teacher's back.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried

A small boy was squalling in the seat opposite, and Carl took him from his tired mother and lured him into a game of tit-tat-toe.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair

That is, unless you Leaguers stop all forms of amusement but tit-tat-toe and puss-in-the-corner.”

From Rope by Hall, Holworthy

She had a family tartan—heather brown, with Lincoln green tit-tat-toe crisscrosses—and she had learned how to walk from a thousand years of strong-walking ancestors.

From The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur

But if slates favored tit-tat-toe, they also favored ciphering, and nothing but good can come from that.

From Back Home by Wood, Eugene