noun
a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does
• Syn: ↑ticktacktoe, ↑ticktacktoo, ↑tick-tack-toe, ↑tic-tac-toe, ↑noughts and crosses
• Hypernyms: ↑board game
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variant of ticktacktoe
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/tit'tat toh"/, n.
tick-tack-toe.
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tit-tat-toe «TIHT tat TOH», noun.
= tick-tack-toe. (Cf. ↑tick-tack-toe)
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tit-tat-toesee tit n.2 3.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.