Pattycake
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
"This Cherokee County Sheriff goes about two-fifty and he don't play pattycake. He's gonna wanna know where you were yesterday."
Example
More examples"This Cherokee County Sheriff goes about two-fifty and he don't play pattycake. He's gonna wanna know where you were yesterday."