cat's cradle

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   a game played with string looped over the fingers

   Broaderchild's game

Questions about cat's cradle

What does cat's cradle mean?

cat's cradle means "a game played with string looped over the fingers".

Is cat's cradle a common word?

cat's cradle 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.