pancakes

Noun

pancake (countable and uncountable, plural pancakes)

1. (England) An thin batter cake similar to a crepe, typically unleavened.
2. (Australia, Canada, Scotland, US) A leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
   • Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other.2001, Alice A. Deck, ““Now Then—Who Said Biscuits?” The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising, 1905–1953”, in Sherrie A. Inness, editor, Kitchen Culture in America: Popular...
3. (uncountable) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
   • And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park.1984 April 14, Freddie Greenfield, “Spoiling the View”, in Gay Community News, page 19
4. (countable) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
   • have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible.2004, Beinn Muir <bm260@nospam4me.cam.ac.uk>, “Ring juggling: pancake throws”, in rec.juggling (Usenet)
5. (countable) Anything very thin and flat.
   • pancake lens
6. (uncountable) Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
   • &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages, page 1200

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