Hotcake

noun

noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A pancake. Canada, Philippines, US

    "For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup."

  2. 2
    a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that sells quickly in large volumes.

    "Monsieur Kopay's account of coming-out in the locker room has returned to the printers for a third run. That little hotcake is coming out of Arbor house at a selling rate of 650 copies per day."

Synonyms

All synonyms
battercakeflannel cakeflannel-cakeflapcakeflapjackgriddlecake

Example

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"For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup."

Etymology

From hot + cake.

Related phrases

sell like hotcakes

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