a children's game played by a child clapping hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme. From the beginning words of the nursery rhyme: / Pat a cake, pat a cake, baker's man! / Bake me a cake as fast as you can, / Shape it and prick it, and mark it with B, / And put it in the oven for Baby and me! / Used figuratively in this lecture. —SHSBC Binder 16 Approved Glossary