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pancake

[ pan-keyk ]

noun

  1. a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.
  2. Also called pan·cake land·ing. an airplane landing made by pancaking.


verb (used without object)

, pan·caked, pan·cak·ing.
  1. (of an airplane or the like) to drop flat to the ground after leveling off a few feet above it.

verb (used with object)

, pan·caked, pan·cak·ing.
  1. Informal. to flatten, especially as the result of a collision or other mishap:

    The car had been pancaked by the bus.

  2. to cause (an airplane) to pancake.

pancake

/ ˈpænˌkeɪk /

noun

    1. a thin flat cake made from batter and fried on both sides, often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
    2. ( as modifier )

      pancake mix

  1. a Scot name for drop scone
  2. a stick or flat cake of compressed make-up
  3. Also calledpancake landing an aircraft landing made by levelling out a few feet from the ground and then dropping onto it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing or (of an aircraft) to make a pancake landing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pancake1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; pan 1, cake
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Idioms and Phrases

see flat as a pancake .
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Example Sentences

So while there are minor differences here and there, at the end of the day, they're all the same in my book — delicious fried shredded potato pancakes.

When noon rolls around, I’ve frequently found myself turning to spaghetti pancakes, a favorite of my latchkey-kid childhood that involves frying up a mixture of noodles, eggs, and parmesan into perfectly crispy comfort food.

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A few hours before, he had eaten a breakfast of pancakes, two bowls of cereal, no milk, his final meal in prison.

Shaped like a pancake, it’s been around for billions of years.

A little more than a billion years later, there’s this pancake galaxy.

Green reportedly served more than a million pancakes and took 50,000 orders for the pancake mix.

Cook pancake in pan, add chopped chocolate toaster pastry, and drizzle with chocolate sauce.

On the northeasternmost point of the U.S., pancake-like ployes are a daily staple, whether covered in syrup or soaking up gravy.

“[The gluten-free one] is smaller and more money,” she laments, pointing to a box of pancake mix.

Later, in Kathmandu at a reception feting her fourth summit, Lakpa tried to mask the bruises with pancake makeup.

That something saved you from being smashed flatter than a pancake, Janet said wisely.

Julie picked up the battered box, disclosing the cake within crushed to a pancake.

A straw "pancake" softened the asperities of her granite couch.

You will find the same principle illustrated by a cook with a pancake.

The first tavern here was kept by George Pancake, and hence the name given the place.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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