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

  • noun A child's game in which two participants gently strike the palms of their hands together in rhythmic beat, often accompanied by a nursery rhyme.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A children's game played by patting the hands together to a nursery rime.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of patty cake.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of pat-a-cake, the first words of the nursery rhyme accompanying the game.]

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