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
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tick-tack-toe::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
| Type of | board game |
Examples of tick-tack-toe
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Its finish comes in handy for messages, appointments, pictures and tick-tack-toe.
From the denverpost.com
Nearby, a Navy diver played tick-tack-toe against all comers from inside a tank of water.
From the washingtonpost.com
How apt that decor resembling a tick-tack-toe board occupies the center of the Studio Theatre's Stage 4 these days.
From the washingtonpost.com
As an undergraduate he invented a mechanical computer, made entirely out of Tinkertoys, that could play tick-tack-toe.
From the time.com
Overhead, vultures circled, vapor trails of passing aircraft playing tick-tack-toe across the intensely deep blue of a spring sky.
From the newsobserver.com
Marlene Krohse, the kindergarten teacher at Trinity Lutheran School in Lombard, helps her students learn the sounds of letters by playing tick-tack-toe.
From the dailyherald.com
You know, the kind of thing you used to use on those long car rides to Grandma's house so you could play ten thousand games of tick-tack-toe on a single playing surface?
From the techcrunch.com
