X's and O's
X's and O's noun: tic-tac-toe. Also the abbreviation of kisses and hugs.
Noun
X's and O's pl (plural only)
- tic-tac-toe
- Against one wall they had three chickens in three different cages with electric X's and O's to play X's and O's with the chicken. You insert 25 cents and the chicken would peck at an X. It was impossible to beat the chicken, because there was an electrical shock that made the chicken hit the right...2011 November 23, Tommy Marks Donily, Gangster Ways, page 33
- Before we can explore computer play at chess, let's start with a much simpler game: the game of tic-tac-toe (also called noughts and crosses, Xs and Os, or exy-ozys). This game is one of the first games that many kids learn.2016, James Hendler, Alice M. Mulvehill, “The Games We Play”, in Social Machines: The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity, New York, NY: Apress, →DOI, →ISBN...
- The fundamental elements of a play.
- The basic delineation of roles in a project.
Also used as
X's and O's is also the abbreviation of kisses and hugs.
Synonyms of X's and O's
Origin of X's and O's
Derived from the use of the letters X and O as common stand-ins for other concepts.
Questions about X's and O's
- What does X's and O's mean?
- X's and O's means tic-tac-toe.
- What part of speech is X's and O's?
- X's and O's is a noun.
Words near X's and O's in the dictionary
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