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  • noun A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.
  • noun 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 that number wins a cake.
  • noun idiomatic Something extremely easy.

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