Meaning of pattycake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A children's game in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands, often to the accompaniment of the nursery rhyme "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man".
   uncountable
2. A childish or time-wasting activity.
   colloquial, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“This Cherokee County Sheriff goes about two-fifty and he don't play pattycake. He's gonna wanna know where you were yesterday.”

““Stalin's boys don't play pattycake with people like Mr. Kravchenko.””

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