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Meanings of tic-tac-toe in English
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 for "ticktacktoe"
Examples for "ticktacktoe"
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He was pretending to be very busy playing ticktacktoe with Awful on the back of an old envelope.
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He saw that his shots had all been good, the three in the belly making a neat pattern, diagonal ticktacktoe.
3
'It's a modification of naughts and crosses-whatthe Americans call ticktacktoe.
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Ticktacktoe and backgammon were played.
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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.
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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.
3
Oh he was not going to continue this game of Tick-Tack-Toe nor he was not going to let me ruin his big Exit either.
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This was rather like basing a thriller on noughts and crosses or consequences.
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Jet trails criss-crossed the sky like a giants game of noughts and crosses.
3
A corrections office plays a game of noughts and crosses with a young visitor.
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He and Roland began a game of noughts and crosses.
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Then we'd play hangman or noughts and crosses.
Usage of tic-tac-toe in English
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On the other hand, the following is an algorithm for playing tic-tac-toe:
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Jason Burke scratched a tic-tac-toe board onto the corner of his poem.
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A game of tic-tac-toe was scratched into the wood by his feet.
4
Thoughts of robots and machines that played tic-tac-toe went out of his mind.
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I drew vertical and horizontal lines to create the tic-tac-toe outline.
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I recognize the tic-tac-toe green fields and the corner placements of windbreak maples.
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He walked over and examined the tic-tac-toe pattern of the window.
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Jason Burke had surrendered to himself in the game of tic-tac-toe.
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Reto is sitting next to me, and we started playing tic-tac-toe.
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I'm not sure if he's talking about tic-tac-toe or what.
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Play follows a blend of rules from familiar games like checkers, chess, and tic-tac-toe.
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Its design was straightforward: On the right were eight tic-tac-toe boards, dense with different numbers.
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The photographer had imposed a tic-tac-toe grid over the shot, dividing it into nine squares.
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Jessie watched the game of tic-tac-toe in tortured silence.
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It might know how to play tic-tac-toe, but it had no voice except for the singing.
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He finished a tic-tac-toe passing play with Elias Lindholm and Mark Giordano during an odd-man rush.
Translations for tic-tac-toe
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