patty-cake
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The group has been known to break out into hopscotch, Hula-Hoop, line dancing, jump rope and patty-cake, among other games.
From Los Angeles Times
“If the theater must bring us only what we can immediately apprehend or comfortably relate to,” Albee responded in one of cultural journalism’s best mic drops, “let us stop going to the theater entirely. Let us play patty-cake with one another or sit in our rooms and contemplate our paunchy middles.”
From New York Times
In front of these drawings at the Met, I fell in love with David again: with his intensity and his frigidity; with how, in his shadow, today’s “political” art looks as benign as patty-cake.
From New York Times
She gushes about her nieces, who call her “Aunt Cake,” as in patty-cake.
From Los Angeles Times
“A lot of times you’ll see them rubbing their pectoral fins against one another. It kind of looks like they’re playing patty-cake,” she said.
From New York Times
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