Usually means: Traditional clapping game for children.
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  1. pat-a-cake: Merriam-Webster
  2. pat-a-cake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pat-a-cake: Wordnik
  4. pat-a-cake: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. pat-a-cake: Dictionary.com
  6. pat-a-cake: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pat-a-cake)

noun:  Alternative form of patty cake (“game”) [(uncountable) A children's clapping game, played while reciting a rhyme about baking a cake.]


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