cat and rat

1. 1.

   a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first

   Synonymscat and mouse

   Broaderchild's game

Questions about cat and rat

What does cat and rat mean?

cat and rat means "a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first".

What is another word for cat and rat?

Close synonyms include cat and mouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cat and rat a common word?

cat and rat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.