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Meanings of noughts and crosses in inglés

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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.

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Usage of noughts and crosses in inglés
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This was rather like basing a thriller on noughts and crosses or consequences.
The Irish Times
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Jet trails criss-crossed the sky like a giants game of noughts and crosses.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
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A corrections office plays a game of noughts and crosses with a young visitor.
Radio NZ
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He and Roland began a game of noughts and crosses.
Another part of the wood
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Then we'd play hangman or noughts and crosses.
The Guardian
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But there remained a demand for games that were only marginally more sophisticated than noughts and crosses.
The Irish Times
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A game of noughts and crosses.
Complete Books of Blood
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So he drew a noughts and crosses hash on his train ticket and pushed it towards the kids.
Radio NZ
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Probably Sharky & George being on after the test card with the clown and the girl playing noughts and crosses.
The Guardian
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It was covered with hugs and kisses, because that's what noughts and crosses look like. These moments, he says, are special.
Radio NZ
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The lighted streets, crossing at right angles, formed a pattern below them like the diagram for the game of noughts and crosses.
Round the World in Seven Days
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He had an extremely careless and frivolous expression all the while, as though he were not working, but playing at noughts and crosses.
The Wife, and Other Stories
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Noughts and Crosses, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
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My Noughts and Crosses series is the one I get the most letters about.
BBC
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When everything else palled they played Noughts and Crosses, or Parson's Cat, or Consequences.
Captivity
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The Noughts and Crosses author is already published by Penguin Random House, which runs Merky Books.
BBC
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