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A completed game of tic tac toe, in which the person playing "O" has won.
See also: tic tac toe and Tic Tac Toe
English
Alternative forms
The "c" in tic, tac, or both may be replaced with a "ck" or with a "t":
- tick-tack-toe; tick-tat-toe; tit-tat-toe, etc.
The phrase, or one of the above variations, may be presented without hyphens:
- tic tac toe; tick tat toe; tit tat toe, etc.
Etymology
Imitative; from tick-tack, used earlier to denote games in which the pieces made clicking sounds.
Noun
tic-tac-toe (uncountable)
- (games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.
Synonyms
- noughts and crosses or naughts and crosses (chiefly British)
- X's and O's (UK, Ireland)
- exie-osies (Northern Ireland)
- X O or X-O (India)
Translations
game
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References
- ^ “tic-tac-toe”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries