Tic-tac-toe is a game in which two players take turns in drawing either an 'O' or an 'X' in one square of a grid consisting of nine squares. The winner is the first player to get three of the same symbols in a row.
[US]
...a game of tic-tac-toe.
tic-tac-toe in British English
(ˌtɪktækˈtəʊ)
noun
a variant of tick-tack-toe
tic-tac-toe in American English
(ˌtɪkˌtækˈtoʊ)
noun
alt. sp. of
tick-tack-toe
Examples of 'tic-tac-toe' in a sentence
tic-tac-toe
They were cuts, not burns, and they looked as if someone had played tic-tac-toe all over him with a razor.
Wood, Bari DOLL'S EYES (1994)
It does not have eyes but rather two large X's where eyes should be, like you make in a tic-tac-toe game.