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hot cake

noun

a pancake or griddlecake.

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sell/go like hot cakes, to be disposed of very quickly and effortlessly, especially in quantity: His record sold like hot cakes on the first day after its release.

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Origin:
1675–85, Americanism

Regional variation note
1. See pancake.

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hot cake
noun
a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle [syn: pancake]

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-Henry David Thoreau

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