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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Something very easy to do.
  • noun A trivial matter.

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  • noun Used other than as an idiom: the play of a child.
  • noun idiomatic Something particularly simple or easy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
  • noun any undertaking that is easy to do

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