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hotcake

hotcake noun: synonym of pancake. Also the alternative form of hot cake.

Noun

hotcake (plural hotcakes)

  1. (Canada, Philippines, US) Synonym of pancake.
    • For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
    Synonyms:
    pancake
  2. (figuratively) Something that sells quickly in large volumes, in the manner of proverbial hotcakes.
    • 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.1977 April 9, David Holland, “People, Places, and Flings”, in Gay Community News, page 13

Also used as

hotcake is also the alternative form of hot cake.

Synonyms of hotcake

Forms of hotcake

pluralhotcakes
alternative formhot cake

Origin of hotcake

From hot + cake.

Words formed from hotcake

Questions about hotcake

What does hotcake mean?
Hotcake means synonym of pancake.
What part of speech is hotcake?
Hotcake is a noun.
What is the plural of hotcake?
The plural of hotcake is hotcakes.

Words near hotcake in the dictionary

  1. hotbunked
  2. hotbunking
  3. hotbunks
  4. hotbutton
  5. hotbuttons
  6. hotcake
  7. hotcakes
  8. hotch
  9. hotch-potch
  10. hotcha
  11. hotchas

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