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noughts and crosses

 noun
     
Related topics: Other Games
noughts and crosses [uncountable] British English
DGO a game in which two players write 0 or X in a pattern of nine squares, trying to win with a row of three 0s or three Xs [= tick-tack-toe American English]
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