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patty-cake

 
Dictionary: pat·ty-cake   (păt'ē-kāk') pronunciation
 
n.

A child's game in which two participants gently strike the palms of their hands together in rhythmic beat, often accompanied by a nursery rhyme.

[Alteration of pat-a-cake, the first words of the nursery rhyme accompanying the game.]


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