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tit-tat-toe

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[tit-tat-toh] / ˌtɪt tætˈtoʊ /

noun

  1. a variant of tick-tack-toe.


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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.

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

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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.

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On scraps of paper we played tit-tat-toe; we improvised a checkerboard and played checkers. 

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

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