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tick-tack-toe

tick-tack-toe or tic-tac-toe


noun 
Definition:
 
game played with grid: a game played by two players who alternately mark squares in a grid with O's or X's, the winner being the first to get three marks in a row

[Probably an imitation of the sound of an earlier game in which players brought pencils down on slates with their eyes closed]
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