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cake walk

From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number that number wins a cake.
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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'cake walk':

cake walkA type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.
cake walkSomething extremely easy.
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