Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game played by two people, each trying to make a line of three X's or three O's in a boxlike figure with nine spaces.
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- noun games A
game in which twoplayers taketurns puttingcircles andcrosses on a 3x3grid and try to get three of the samesymbols in aline
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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Played correctly, Dr. Dixit said, tic-tac-toe should always end in a draw.
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The youngest passenger is 6 years old, Lauren, from St. Paul, Minn., who was playing tic-tac-toe with her mother, Kaela Oliver, an immigration lawyer, as the sun set.
The Fellowship Bus: A Hardees, a Little History - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Air New Zealand studied household furniture and, in its warehouse lab, experimented with bunk beds, staggered coach seating in kind of a tic-tac-toe pattern that would allow passengers to stretch out more with legs protruding between seats, or even stacking seats atop each other in the coach cabin.
To Remedy the Squeeze in Coach, New 'Cuddle Class' Seats Scott McCartney 2011
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It just was creepy, because without that little tic-tac-toe sign on his head, it's just not Archie.
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It just was creepy, because without that little tic-tac-toe sign on his head, it's just not Archie.
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Then we played some games: we threw bean bags into targets for prizes and ran relays, spun hula hoops and played tic-tac-toe, fulfilling the mitzvah of laughing and being merry on Sukkot.
GLBT Families Come OUT to Decorate the Sukkah With GLOE « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009
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The children of Nuestros Niños Day Care Center wanted a playground with a miniature rock wall, five slides and a tic-tac-toe wall.
Creating a Play Space in Brooklyn Melanie Grayce West 2011
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Kidscan use them to build log cabin, alphabet letters or a tic-tac-toe board.
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I just want to know who puts their tic-tac-toe games inside a box in the first place?
Friday... marshallpayne1 2010
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It just was creepy, because without that little tic-tac-toe sign on his head, it's just not Archie.
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