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pancaking

/ˈpænkeɪkɪŋ/

pancaking is the present participle and gerund of pancake.

Meaning of pancake

Verb

pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
  2. (demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
  3. (transitive) To flatten violently.
    • Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters[…]2011, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters
  4. (intransitive) To lie out flat, like a pancake; sploot.

See all 14 meanings of pancake

Questions about pancaking

What is pancaking the present participle and gerund of?
Pancaking is the present participle and gerund of pancake.
How do you pronounce pancaking?
Pancaking is pronounced /ˈpænkeɪkɪŋ/.

Words near pancaking in the dictionary

  1. pancaked
  2. pancakeless
  3. pancakelike
  4. pancakes
  5. pancakey
  6. pancaking
  7. pancaky
  8. Pancana
  9. pancancer
  10. pancardiac
  11. pancarditis

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