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Definition of Tick-tack-toe
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Board Game
Definition of Tick-tack-toe
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of tic-tac-toe) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tick-tack-toe
Literary usage of Tick-tack-toe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"tick-tack-toe, n. a kind of miniature game of draughts played by children ou slates.
Tide, n. time, season. ..."
2. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places by G. F. Northall (1892)
"In Warwickshire, Staffordshire, etc., the game is called Tick- tack-toe, and the
rhyme is "tick-tack-toe, I've caught you." A square is divided into nine ..."
3. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places by G. F. Northall (1892)
"In Warwickshire, Staffordshire, etc., the game is called Tick- tack-toe, and the
rhyme is " tick-tack-toe, I've caught you." A square is divided into nine ..."
4. A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale, North and South of the by Robert Backhouse Peacock (1869)
"tick-tack-toe, n. a kind of miniature game of draughts played by children on slates.
Tide, n. time, season. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"Hermit Cobbler, p. 16. I n'D- At it he went, tickle-but, like a bull at a gate.
l8'» Chimney Corner, p. 115. tick-tack-toe, sb. a child's game. S. ROWLANDS. ..."
6. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting Held at by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1896)
"Of the quiet games, old maid and tick-tack-toe received the most votes; while of
love games, post office, clap-in-clap-out, and drop-the- handkerchief were ..."
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