Usually means: String game creating intricate patterns.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word cat's cradle:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. cat's cradle: Merriam-Webster
  2. cat's cradle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cat's cradle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cat's cradle, cat's cradle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cat's cradle: Vocabulary.com
  6. cat's-cradle, cat's cradle: Wordnik
  7. cat's cradle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cat's cradle: Wiktionary
  9. cat's cradle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cat's cradle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cat's cradle, cat's cradle, cats cradle: Dictionary.com
  12. Cat's Cradle, Cat's Cradle (Golding novel), Cat's Cradle (film), Cat's Cradle (novel), Cat's cradle, Cat's cradle (disambiguation), Cat's cradle (string game), Cats cradle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. cat's cradle: Rhymezone
  14. cats cradle: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cat's cradle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. cat's cradle, cats cradle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Cat's Cradle: Phrase Finder
  18. Cats Cradle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat's Cradle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat's Cradle: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cat's cradle)

noun:  (uncountable) A children's game of forming string into various shapes around one's fingers.
noun:  (countable, idiomatic) Any complicated structure that appears to be without purpose.


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