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cakewalk definition

☆ cake·walk (kāk′wôk′)

noun

  1. an elaborate step or walk formerly performed by blacks in the South competing for the prize of a cake
  2. a strutting dance developed from this
  3. something easily accomplished, won, etc.

intransitive verb

to do a cakewalk

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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