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  • noun Alternative spelling of tic-tac-toe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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

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Examples

  • Bailey said he couldn't wait, and that he was most excited about "the sliding board, the monkey bars, and the tick-tack-toe board."

    Neighborhood, nonprofits team up to make new playground happen Nathan Rott 2010

  • Instructions included wiring diagrams for constructing a number of primitive computer circuits that could add, subtract, play tick-tack-toe and solve simple problems in logic.

    What I Learned From a Brainiac David Deming 2012

  • Yesterday, I caught myself doodling your tick-tack-toe thing on the back of a phonebook at work.

    Father's Day... marshallpayne1 2010

  • And leftover from field day are the chalk remnants of a tick-tack-toe game scribbled across the red bricks on the side of the school.

    At Peace Parade in Mount Rainier, students line up to celebrate staying in line 2010

  • Start by playing tick-tack-toe with subject position.

    Kodak offers 10 photo-taking tips | Sync Blog 2008

  • Consider the problem, "How can I win the game of tick-tack-toe?"

    Tragedy of the Commons (historical) Garrett James Hardin 2007

  • The population problem cannot be solved in a technical way, any more than can the problem of winning the game of tick-tack-toe.

    Tragedy of the Commons (historical) Garrett James Hardin 2007

  • Magic-square numbers derive from a square, divided into nine boxes as in a tick-tack-toe grid, and in each box of which is a number, one through nine, arranged in such a way that adding the three numbers horizontally, vertically, or diagonally always equals fifteen.

    Tibeto-Mongolian Astrology and Karma 1996

  • We may be seen that way, but there's no use spending any more time here playing tick-tack-toe on that wood up there.

    Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

  • When it rained, the children scurried to fasten the side curtains and then huddled together to keep warm while they played tick-tack-toe or guessing games.

    Across the Fruited Plain Florence Crannell Means 1935

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