A game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a 3-by-3 board

• The object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does
• Second course also game

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n. a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a 3-by-3 board; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does [syn: ticktacktoe , tick-tack-toe , tic-tac-toe , tit-tat-toe ...