English

Proper noun

Pancake

1. A surname​.

English

U.S. style pancakes.

Noun

pancake ‎(plural pancakes)

1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
2. (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
3. (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.
   • 2004, Beinn Muir <bm260@nospam4me.cam.ac.uk>, “Ring juggling: pancake throws”, in rec.juggling, Usenet:

     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.

Synonyms

• (thin fried batter cake): crêpe or crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pancake ‎(third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)

1. To make a pancake landing
2. (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
3. To flatten violently.
   • 2011, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters

     Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters […]

See also

• blintz
• okonomiyaki
• Pan-Cake
• waffle

Portuguese

Noun

pancake f (plural pancakes)

1. Dated form of panqueca.