tick-tack-toen.

Etymology: tick-tack n. compare tip-tap-toe n. at tip-tap n., tit-tat-toe n.

a. A children's game played on a slate, consisting in trying with the eyes shut to bring the pencil down on one of the numbers of a set, the number hit being scored.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others

buckle-pit1532

marrowbone1533

put-pin?1577

primus secundus1584

fox in the hole1585

haltering of Hick's mare1585

muss1591

pushpin1598

Jack-in-the-box1600

a penny in the forehead1602

buckerels1649

bumdockdousse1653

peck-point1653

toro1660

wheelbarrow1740

thread-needle1751

thrush-a-thrush1766

runaway ring?1790

Gregory1801

pick-point1801

fighting cocks1807

runaway knock1813

tit-tat-toe1818

French and English1820

honeypots1821

roly-poly1821

tickle-tail1821

pottle1822

King of Cantland1825

tip-top-castle1834

tile1837

statue1839

chip stone1843

hen and chickens1843

king of the castle1843

King Caesar1849

rap-jacket1870

old witch1881

tick-tack-toe1884

twos and threes1896

last across (the road)1904

step1909

king of the hill1928

Pooh-sticks1928

trick or treat1928

stare-you-out1932

king of the mountain1933

dab cricket1938

Urkey1938

trick-or-treating1941

seven-up1950

squashed tomato1959

slot-racing1965

Pog1993

knights-

1884 Mag. of Art Feb. 135/2 He saw those children playing tic-tac-toe.

1899 S. R. Crockett Little Anna Mark xii Playing at quoits, tops, marbles, tic-tac-toe, jacks, knuckle-bones.

b. U.S. = noughts and crosses n.; ought n.²; also the cross-shaped frame in which this game is played; also figurative.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > noughts and crosses

tit-tat-toe1856

oughts and crosses1861

noughts and crosses1864

X's and O's1894

tick-tack-toe1960

1960 S. Plath in Sewanee Rev. 68 604 The jacket is patterned with brown squares the size of cigarette packs, each square boldly outlined in black. You could play tick-tack-toe on it.

1975 National Geographic Apr. 500 (caption) Tick-tack-toe of a new apartment complex rises amid mud-and-wattle houses in Zanzibar town.

1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone xi. 266 A tick-tack-toe form filled with zeros.

1978 G. Vidal Kalki i. 8 Just past the tall sick palms at the edge of the pool, the exhaust of a half-dozen jets was making a kind of tick-tack-toe in the dusty brown sky over Los Angeles.

1980 Dædalus Spring 46 A computer designed only to issue the company's pay-checks might stalemate me perpetually in tic-tac-toe.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	tick-tack-toe
释义	tick-tack-toen. Etymology: tick-tack n. compare tip-tap-toe n. at tip-tap n., tit-tat-toe n. a. A children's game played on a slate, consisting in trying with the eyes shut to bring the pencil down on one of the numbers of a set, the number hit being scored. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1884 Mag. of Art Feb. 135/2 He saw those children playing tic-tac-toe. 1899 S. R. Crockett Little Anna Mark xii Playing at quoits, tops, marbles, tic-tac-toe, jacks, knuckle-bones. b. U.S. = noughts and crosses n.; ought n.²; also the cross-shaped frame in which this game is played; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > noughts and crosses tit-tat-toe1856 oughts and crosses1861 noughts and crosses1864 X's and O's1894 tick-tack-toe1960 1960 S. Plath in Sewanee Rev. 68 604 The jacket is patterned with brown squares the size of cigarette packs, each square boldly outlined in black. You could play tick-tack-toe on it. 1975 National Geographic Apr. 500 (caption) Tick-tack-toe of a new apartment complex rises amid mud-and-wattle houses in Zanzibar town. 1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone xi. 266 A tick-tack-toe form filled with zeros. 1978 G. Vidal Kalki i. 8 Just past the tall sick palms at the edge of the pool, the exhaust of a half-dozen jets was making a kind of tick-tack-toe in the dusty brown sky over Los Angeles. 1980 Dædalus Spring 46 A computer designed only to issue the company's pay-checks might stalemate me perpetually in tic-tac-toe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1884
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