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Definition of Tit-tat-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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tit-tat-toe
Literary usage of Tit-tat-toe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural Method Readers.: A Primer- Reader by Hannah Theresa McManus, John Henry Haaren (1914)
"1, 2, 3, three in a row, Three little pussy cats, tit-tat-toe! ... What do the
pussy cats say? Do they say Yes? No, they say tit-tat-toe! ..."
2. What Shall We Do Now?: Over Five Hundred Games and Pastimes; a Book of by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1922)
"Noughts and Crosses or tit-tat-toe "Noughts and Crosses " is playable anywhere;
all that is needed is a piece of paper — a newspaper will do — and a pencil. ..."
3. The Nursery (1875)
"Tit, tat, toe! Three in a row! That's the game they played upon their slate, you
know The O's were made by Kate; The crosses, by her mate; While Billy kept ..."
4. Graded Composition Lessons by Marcelia McKeon (1904)
"Read the following account of— HOW TO PLAY tit-tat-toe.1 Jack showed the boys a
better kind of ... tit-tat-toe BOARD. — Eggleston, " The Hoosier School Boy. ..."
5. Rag Weed Rhymes of Rural Folks by Orlena Marian Minton (1910)
"tit-tat-toe I oftimes long for that far day So many years ago, When in the
schoolhouse by the lane We played at tit-tat-toe. Or winter evenings by the ..."
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