cake·walk (kāk'wôk')
n.

1. Something easily accomplished: Winning the race was a cakewalk for her.
2. A 19th-century public entertainment among African Americans in which walkers performing the most accomplished or amusing steps won cakes as prizes.
3. 1. A strutting dance, often performed in minstrel shows.
   2. The music for this dance.

intr.v., -walked, -walk·ing, -walks.
To perform a strutting dance.

cakewalker cake'walk'er n.

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