hotcake

hot·cake

also hot cake  (hŏt′kāk′)

n.

See pancake.

Idiom:

go/sell like hotcakes Informal

To be disposed of quickly; be in great demand: Programs for the championship game went like hotcakes.

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hotcake

(ˈhɒtkeɪk)

n

a US equivalent of pancake¹

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

hotcake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, pancake, griddlecake cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat buckwheat cake - a pancake made with buckwheat flour buttermilk pancake - a pancake made with buttermilk blini, bliny - Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream blintz, blintze - (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked crape, French pancake, crepe - small very thin pancake german pancake, pfannkuchen - puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce latke, potato pancake - made of grated potato and egg with a little flour tortilla - thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour

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