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hot·cake
also hot cake (hŏt′kāk′)n.
Idiom: See pancake.
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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| Noun | 1. |  hotcake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddlecake - 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 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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