Pancake

Quick meaning: Pancake is a noun meaning (countable and uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:.

Meaning

(countable and uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
2. (countable) Anything very thin and flat.
3. (countable, film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
4. (countable, volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
5. (US, slang, dated, countable) An attractive young woman.
6. (countable, juggling) 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.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

pancake lens

Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]

And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park.

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.

Word Forms

• pancakes
• pan cake
• pancaking
• pancaked

Synonyms for pancake

Depending on context, synonyms include crepe, hotcake, pikelet, griddlecake, battercake, flapcake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include griddlecake, hotcake, flapcake, battercake, crepe, dough.

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