tit-tat-toe
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Here and there were stealthy games of tit-tat-toe, practiced, doubtless, behind the teacher's back.
From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell
That is, unless you Leaguers stop all forms of amusement but tit-tat-toe and puss-in-the-corner.”
From Rope by Holworthy Hall
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 Gouverneur Morris
On scraps of paper we played tit-tat-toe; we improvised a checkerboard and played checkers.
From The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace
But if slates favored tit-tat-toe, they also favored ciphering, and nothing but good can come from that.
From Back Home by Eugene Wood
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