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tit-tat-toe

[tit-tat-toh]

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.
Also, tick-tack-too [tik-tak-too] , tic-tac-toe, tit-tat-toe.


Origin:
1865–70; imit. of sound, as of bringing a pencil down on slate; see ticktack
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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