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hotcakes

hotcakes is the plural of hotcake.

Meaning of hotcake

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

Questions about hotcakes

What is hotcakes the plural of?
Hotcakes is the plural of hotcake.

Words near hotcakes in the dictionary

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

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