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hotcake
hot·cake also hot cake H0290600 (hŏt′kāk′)n. See pancake.Idiom: go/sell like hotcakes Informal To be disposed of quickly; be in great demand: Programs for the championship game went like hotcakes.hotcake (ˈhɒtkeɪk) n a US equivalent of pancake1Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  hotcake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddlebattercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, pancake, griddlecakecake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fatbuckwheat cake - a pancake made with buckwheat flourbuttermilk pancake - a pancake made with buttermilkblini, bliny - Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour creamblintz, blintze - (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or bakedcrape, French pancake, crepe - small very thin pancakegerman pancake, pfannkuchen - puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit saucelatke, potato pancake - made of grated potato and egg with a little flourtortilla - thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour |
hotcake
sell like hotcakesTo be sold quickly and in large quantities. This record has been selling like hotcakes—I can't keep it in stock!See also: hotcake, like, sellsell like hot cakesTo sell very quickly. We had to order a second shipment of shirts because they have just been selling like hot cakes!See also: cake, hot, like, sellsell like hotcakesFig. [for something] to be sold very fast. The delicious candy sold like hotcakes. The fancy new cars were selling like hotcakes.See also: hotcake, like, sellsell like hot cakes BRITISH or sell like hotcakes mainly AMERICANIf things sell like hot cakes, people buy large quantities of them in a short time. The software is selling like hot cakes. Her products sold like hotcakes. Note: You can also say that things go like hot cakes. The salesman says they've been going like hot cakes. Note: In American English, `hotcakes' are pancakes, while in British English `hot cakes' are cakes which have just been baked. See also: cake, hot, like, sellsell (or go) like hot cakes be sold quickly and in large quantities.See also: cake, hot, like, sellEncyclopediaSeegoFinancialSeeGOhotcake
Synonyms for hotcakenoun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddleSynonyms- battercake
- flannel cake
- flannel-cake
- flapcake
- flapjack
- hot cake
- pancake
- griddlecake
Related Words- cake
- buckwheat cake
- buttermilk pancake
- blini
- bliny
- blintz
- blintze
- crape
- French pancake
- crepe
- german pancake
- pfannkuchen
- latke
- potato pancake
- tortilla
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