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Hot potato
A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.
📖 Definitions of "Hot potato"
noun
- 1
A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.
- 2
An awkward or delicate problem with which nobody wants to be associated.
"The politician hastened to distance himself from that political hot potato."
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