cakewalker

cake·walk (k

wôk

)

1. Something easily accomplished: Winning the race was a cakewalk for her.

2. A 19th-century public entertainment among African Americans in which walkers performing the most accomplished or amusing steps won cakes as prizes.

a. A strutting dance, often performed in minstrel shows.

b. The music for this dance.

intr.v. cake·walked, cake·walk·ing, cake·walks

To perform a strutting dance.

cakewalker n.

cakewalk [ˈkeɪkˌwɔːk]

1. (Performing Arts / Dancing) a dance based on a march with intricate steps, originally performed by African-Americans with the prize of a cake for the best performers

2. (Music, other) a piece of music composed for this dance

3. Informal an easily accomplished task

(Performing Arts / Dancing) (intr) to perform the cakewalk

cakewalker n

cakewalk - Started out as a competitive dance whose winner got a cake as a prize.

See also related terms for prize.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	cakewalk - a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake choreography, stage dancing - a show involving artistic dancing
	2.	cakewalk - an easy accomplishment; "winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him"; "invading Iraq won't be a cakewalk" accomplishment, achievement - the action of accomplishing something figure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Verb	1.	cakewalk - perform the cakewalk dance trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, dance - move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio"

Translations

cakewalk [ˈkeɪkwɔːk] n

(= dance) → cake-walk

(fig) (= easily accomplished task) → promenade f de santé

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accomplishment
achievement
choreography
dance
dig
dig in
digging
digs
doddle
figure
figure of speech
image
Outdoing
picnic
prize
pushover
stage dancing
taking the cake
trip the light fantastic

Media obeisance to Bush's invasion of Iraq had not only the nation's editorial pages bugling their support but also print and broadcast media stars hustling to the Gulf to be embedded with the conquering cakewalkers as they convoyed north to Baghdad.

Chasing phantoms in Iraq: today's war on terror parallels failed war ... by McCarthy, Colman / National Catholic Reporter

African-American coon singers such as Aida Overton Walker, a member of Black Pattie's Troupe and choreographer of many early black musicals, were better known as cakewalkers than coon shouters.

First of the Red Hot Mamas: "Coon Shouting" and the Jewish Ziegfeld ... by LAVITT, PAMELA BROWN / American Jewish History

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