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noughts and crosses
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Noun noughts and crosses has 1 sense
- noughts and crosses(n = noun.act) tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe - 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; Array is a kind of board game
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