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hot + cake
Noun
hotcake (plural hotcakes)
- (Canada, US) A pancake.
For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
- Something that sells quickly in large volumes.
1977 April 9, David Holland, “People, Places, and Flings”, in Gay Community News, page 13: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.
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Spanish
Noun
hotcake m (plural hotcakes)
- hotcake