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pancake
[ pan-keyk ]
noun
- a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.
- Also called pan·cake land·ing. an airplane landing made by pancaking.
verb (used without object)
- (of an airplane or the like) to drop flat to the ground after leveling off a few feet above it.
verb (used with object)
- Informal. to flatten, especially as the result of a collision or other mishap:
The car had been pancaked by the bus.
- to cause (an airplane) to pancake.
pancake
/ ˈ±èæ²ÔËŒ°ì±ðɪ°ì /
noun
- a thin flat cake made from batter and fried on both sides, often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
- ( as modifier )
pancake mix
- a Scot name for drop scone
- a stick or flat cake of compressed make-up
- Also calledpancake landing an aircraft landing made by levelling out a few feet from the ground and then dropping onto it
verb
- to cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing or (of an aircraft) to make a pancake landing
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Idioms and Phrases
see flat as a pancake .Example Sentences
Neeraj Singh, who is leading the Indian disaster response team working at the Buddhist academy, said the structure had collapsed like a "pancake" - one layer on top of another.
As the "building collapsed like a pancake" – and is continuing to collapse – rescue work has been difficult, forcing officials to refrain from using heavy machinery, one official said.
Blueberry pancakes for the table, a date with Ms. Pac-Man, a Clippers game and a night at the Hollywood Improv — where his comedy career kicked off — make an ideal itinerary for the ‘Righteous Gemstones’ actor.
She showed her friends her childhood bedroom, the wood-burning stove where they’d make pancakes as a family, and described the scrambled egg sandwiches on white bread with mayonnaise that her dad would make.
But most of the time it’s just me and my wife, so it’s basically a stack of pancakes for the two of us, which is a perfect scenario.
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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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