Usually means: Game of unwrapping music-stopped prizes.
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  1. pass the parcel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. pass-the-parcel, pass-the-parcel: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pass the parcel: Wiktionary
  4. Pass the parcel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. pass the parcel: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pass the parcel)

noun:  (games) A children's game in which a parcel having many layers of packaging is passed from person to person around a ring while music plays, the person holding the parcel when the music is temporarily stopped being allowed to remove a single layer, and the person removing the innermost layer winning the prize contained within; in a variation of the game, there is a prize under each layer that is awarded to the person removing that layer.
noun:  (by extension) a situation in which the ownership of something changes frequently.

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