cake walk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.
  2. 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 wins a cake.
  3. Something extremely easy.

Pronunciation

en-au-cake walk.ogg

Word forms

cake walk cake walks cake-walk
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