a term used since 1950 which means the action of not handling cases. From a children's game played by a child clapping hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme which has the following beginning words:/"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!" —State of ManCongress Approved Gls (14.5.92)