Pattycake

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A childish or time-wasting activity. colloquial, uncountable

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

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

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