oranges and lemons

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A traditional English children's game, in which a rhyme is chanted as the players file, in pairs, through an arch formed by two other players' clasped hands. Those caught when the hands descend then form another adjacent arch.

Word forms

oranges and lemons
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