tick-tack-toe
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Definitions
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- : a simple game in which one player marks down only X's and another only O's, each alternating in filling in any of the nine compartments of a figure formed by two vertical lines crossed by two horizontal lines, the winner being the first to fill in three marks in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row.
- : a children's game consisting of trying, with the eyes shut, to bring a pencil down upon one of a set of circled numbers, as on a slate, the number touched being counted as a score.
Examples
Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.
She actually had never been to a Deer Tick show before, but she liked it a lot.
So we picked out the song (“Rhiannon,” click here for video), and Deer Tick learned it.
“James Woods refuses to toe the Hollyweird line,” Twitchy managing editor Lori Ziganto told The Daily Beast in an email.
But Republican elected officials tend not to toe the conservative line, in part for political reasons.
If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.
“The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.
Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.
The Staff have made up their minds that we should be very much in the wrong box if we dossed down on the toe of the Peninsula.