patting

Variant of pat

pat definition

pat (pat)

adjective

  1. apt; timely; opportune
  2. exactly suitable
  3. so glibly plausible as to seem contrived
  4. designating a poker hand to which no cards are drawn because of the unlikelihood of improving it

Etymology: prob. < pat

adverb

in a pat manner

Related Forms:

pat Idioms

have (down) pat

Informal to know or have memorized thoroughly

stand pat

☆
  1. Poker to draw no further cards and play the hand as dealt
  2. to refuse to turn aside from an opinion, course of action, etc.

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