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tick-tack-toe

   [tik-tak-toh]
noun
1.
a simple game in which one player marks down only X's and another only O's, each alternating in filling in any of the nine compartments of a figure formed by two vertical lines crossed by two horizontal lines, the winner being the first to fill in three marks in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row.
2.
a children's game consisting of trying, with the eyes shut, to bring a pencil down upon one of a set of circled numbers, as on a slate, the number touched being counted as a score.
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Also, tick-tack-too  [tik-tak-too] , tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe.

Origin:
1865–70; imitative of sound, as of bringing a pencil down on slate; see ticktack
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tick-tack-toe or tick-tack-too (ˌtɪktækˈtəʊ, ˌtɪktækˈtuː)
 
—n
(US), (Canadian) Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): noughts and crosses a game in which two players, one using a nought, "O", the other a cross, "X", alternately mark one square out of nine formed by two pairs of crossed lines, the winner being the first to get three of his symbols in a row
 
[C19: from ticktack (meaning: an obsolete variety of backgammon)]
 
tick-tack-too or tick-tack-too
 
—n
 
[C19: from ticktack (meaning: an obsolete variety of backgammon)]

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tick-tack-toe
1884, probably an extension of tick-tack (1588), a form of backgammon, possibly from M.Fr. trictrac, perhaps imitative of the sound of tiles on the board.
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