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单词 noughts-and-crosses
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noughts-and-crosses

[ nawts-uhn-kraw-siz, -kros-iz ]
/ ˈnɔts ənˈkrɔ sɪz, -ˈkrɒs ɪz /

noun (used with a singular verb)British.

tick-tack-toe (def. 1).

Origin of noughts-and-crosses

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby noughts-and-crosses

Nouakchott, nougat, nougatine, nought, noughties, noughts-and-crosses, Nouméa, noumenal, noumenon, noun, noun adjunct
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Example sentences from the Web for noughts-and-crosses

  • I'd back him at cat's-cradle, and I dare say he plays a very fair game at noughts-and-crosses.

    Love and Lucy|Maurice Henry Hewlett

British Dictionary definitions for noughts-and-crosses

noughts and crosses

noun

(functioning as singular) a game in which two players, one using a nought, "O", the other a cross, "X", alternately mark one square out of nine formed by two pairs of crossed lines, the winner being the first to get three of his symbols in a rowUS and Canadian term: tick-tack-toe, (US) crisscross
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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