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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

On scraps of paper we played tit-tat-toe; we improvised a checkerboard and played checkers. — The Long Labrador Trail
"It's as simple as tit-tat-toe, three-in-a-row, and as easy as playing hooky. — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
But if slates favored tit-tat-toe, they also favored ciphering, and nothing but good can come from that. — Back Home
Here and there were stealthy games of tit-tat-toe, practiced, doubtless, behind the teacher's back. — Chimney-Pot Papers
Maybe the teacher's nerves were too highly strung to endure the squeaking of gritty pencils, but I think the real reason for their banishment is, that slates invited too strongly the game of noughts and crosses, or tit-tat-toe, three in — Back Home