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• n  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

• Said she: "We didn't play ticktacktoe with you in the election, and we do not expect you to play ticktacktoe with these jobs.
• There are no tiddlywinks at hand, and the London prostitute with whom he is spending the night to win a 50 bet on his virility has grown weary of ticktacktoe.
• Upon this official sheet, dated May 22,1971, are recorded two games of ticktacktoe between Ehrlichman and the Secretary of State.

• ticktacktoo
• tick-tack-toe
• tic-tac-toe
• tit-tat-toe
• noughts and crosses