Definition of "musical chairs" []

• A game in which players walk to music around a group of chairs containing one chair fewer than the number of players and rush to sit down when the music stops. The player left standing in each round is eliminated. (noun-plural)
• Informal A rearrangement, as of the elements of a problem, having little practical influence or significance. (noun-plural)

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