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tick-tack-toe

tick-tack-toe
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [tik tak toh]
    • /tɪk tæk toʊ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [tik tak toh]
    • /tɪk tæk toʊ/

Definitions of tick-tack-toe word

  • noun tick-tack-toe 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. 1
  • noun tick-tack-toe 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. 1
  • noun tick-tack-toe 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 0
  • noun tick-tack-toe a game in which two players take turns marking either X's or O's in an open block of nine squares, the object being to complete a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal row of three of one's mark before the other player can 0
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Origin of tick-tack-toe

First appearance:

before 1865
One of the 28% newest English words
1865-70; imitative of sound, as of bringing a pencil down on slate; see ticktack

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Parts of speech for Tick-tack-toe

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
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determiner
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tick-tack-toe popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 59% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

Related words

  • cat and mouse

    Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.

  • crisscross

    to move or cause to move in a crosswise pattern

  • noughts-and-crosses

    tick-tack-toe (def 1).

  • tit-tat-toe

    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.
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