Sekirov Dictionary

pancake

/ˈpæn.keɪk/

noun 10
verb 4
forms 3

noun10

A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
An thin batter cake similar to a crepe, typically unleavened.
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(US, Australia) A leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other. — 2001
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Anything very thin and flat.
- Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […] — 2004
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A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park. — 1984
(slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
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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.
- 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. — 2004
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(slang, old-fashioned) An attractive young woman.
- Damon Runyon, The Brakeman's Daughter 'To tell the truth,' The Humming Bird says, 'I neglect these details, because,' he says, 'I am already dated up to go out with Big False Face to-night to call on a doll who is daffy to meet me. Otherwise,' he says, 'I will undoubtedly make arrangements to see more of this pancake I just save from rack and ruin.'
A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
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.

verb4

To collapse one floor after another.
To flatten violently.
To make a pancake landing.
To lie out flat, like a pancake; sploot.

forms

pancaked · pancaking · pancakes

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