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Noun

1. cat's cradle

a game played with string looped over the fingers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cat's Cradle

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noun
a game played by making intricate patterns with a loop of string between the fingers

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Cat's Cradle

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a children's pastime in which a string looped over the fingers is transferred back and forth on the hands of the players so as to form different designs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cat's Cradle

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n.
1. A game in which a string is looped on the fingers to form an intricate pattern between a player's hands that can be successively varied or transferred to another player's hands.
2. An intricate pattern: a cat's cradle of conspiracies.

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