noughts and crosses

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noughts and crosses - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  noughts and crosses
      n 1: 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 [syn: ticktacktoe,
           ticktacktoo, tick-tack-toe, tic-tac-toe, tit-tat- toe
           , noughts and crosses]