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Cat and mouse   /kæt ənd maʊs/   Listen
Cat and mouse

noun
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.  Synonym: cat and rat.






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"Cat and mouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... as a monkey, and who loved to play cat and mouse with a woman, continued to gaze at her with his assumption of ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens



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