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cat's cradle

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cat's cradle

 
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–noun
1. a children's game in which two players alternately stretch a looped string over their fingers in such a way as to produce different designs.
2. the intricate design formed by the string in this game.
3. intricacy; complexity.
Origin:
1760–70
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Cat's Cradle

 
–noun
a novel (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut.
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cat's cradle   (kāts)
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: "Their computers devised a cat's cradle of infinite complexity for the flight tracks of half a dozen space cameras around the globe's surface" (Frederick Forsyth).

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