tic-tac-toe

tic-tac-toe
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
• Hypernyms: ↑board game

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noun

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/tik'tak toh"/, n.
tick-tack-toe.

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tic-tac-toe UK [ˌtɪk tæk ˈtəʊ] US [ˌtɪk tæk ˈtoʊ] noun [uncountable] american
the game of noughts and crosses
Thesaurus: quizzes, puzzles and guessing gameshyponym to perform an action in a card gamehyponym

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tic-tac-toe «TIHK tak TOH», noun.
= tick-tack-toe. (Cf. ↑tick-tack-toe)

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['tik ˌtak 'tō]
(also tick-tack-toe) n. a game in which two players seek in alternate turns to complete a row, a column, or a diagonal with either three O's or three X's drawn in the spaces of a grid of nine squares
Origin:
1960s: imitative; from tick-tack, used earlier to denote games in which the pieces made clicking sounds

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(or tick-tack-toe) /ˌtıkˌtækˈtoʊ/ noun [noncount]
US : a game in which one player draws Xs and another player draws Os inside a set of nine squares and each player tries to be the first to fill a row of squares with either Xs or Os — called also (Brit) noughts and crosses

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tic-tac-toe (also tick-tack-toe) [ˌtɪk tæk ˈtəʊ] [ˈtoʊ] (NAmE) (BrE ˌnoughts and ˈcrosses) noun uncountable
a simple game in which two players take turns to write Os or Xs in a set of nine squares. The first player to complete a row of three Os or three Xs is the winner.
See also: ↑noughts and crosses  
Word Origin:
[tic-tac-toe] 1960s: imitative; from tick-tack, used earlier to denote games in which the pieces made clicking sounds.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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