Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown.
- intransitive verb To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
- intransitive verb To make a pancake landing.
- intransitive verb To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thin cake of batter fried or baked in a pan or griddle; a flapjack; a griddle-cake; also, a cake made of dough or batter and fried in fat.
- noun An imitation leather made of scarps agglutinated by cement or glue, and pressed into a flat sheet. It is used for in-soles, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thin
batter cake fried in a pan or on agriddle inoil orbutter . - noun theater A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- noun juggling A type of
throw , usually with a ring where theprop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop. - verb To make a
pancake landing - verb construction, demolition To collapse one floor after another.
- verb To
flatten violently.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
Etymologies
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And how we're finding these is, we're seeing that most of the collapses that have occurred here are what we call pancake-style collapse.
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And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.
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And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.
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And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs.
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Olympus has a limited edition "Komachi Kit" available for the holiday season, which includes an E-420 SLR camera body ($440 alone) and a 25mm f/2.8 Zuiko Digital lens, which they call a pancake lens due to its very small size.
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Olympus has a limited edition "Komachi Kit" available for the holiday season, which includes an E-420 SLR camera body $440 alone and a 25mm f/2.8 Zuiko Digital lens, which they call a pancake lens due to its very small size.
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Here, waves tossed the ice around — grinding it into round plates called pancake ice or pushing thin sheets on top of one another to create an interlocking pattern, a phenomenon known as finger rafting.
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treeseed commented on the word pancake
Pancake is a form of makeup developed for use in filming. In early Technicolor films, for example, to prevent the actors' faces from looking green.
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February 18, 2008
missanthropist commented on the word pancake
'Uncle Tom', or humble negro slang, used by negroes
Dictionary of American Slang, 1969
July 16, 2008