hotcake

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hotcake

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From hot + cake.

noun hotcakes · hot cake

Canada, Philippines, US Synonym of pancake. For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
Similar: pancake
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.
alternative, uncommon Alternative form of hot cake, a cake that is hot.

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@misc{hotcake_2026,
  title = {hotcake},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hotcake},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}