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tit-tat-toe

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, ticktacktoo, tick-tack-toe, tic-tac-toe, noughts and crosses]

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They made a sort of tit-tat-toe pattern like we used to make on the blackboard at school when I was little.