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View synonyms for hot cake

hot cake

or hot·cake

[ haht keyk ]

noun

  1. a pancake or griddlecake.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hot cake1

An Americanism dating back to 1675–85
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. 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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Example Sentences

The hot cake is as much savory as sweet, and I dig its subtle chew.

I shall ring the bell for some more bread-and-butter; I know you dined early; and this hot cake will do you no good.'

All very fine to jeer at it now in cold print but it goes down like hot cake that stuff.

Just because he didn't come from St. Petersburg, then you drop them like a hot cake.

Joel dropped his doughnut to his plate as if it had been a hot cake, and leaned over to fasten his black eyes on her big face.

We have plenty hot cake, and beans and pork, and a little how-you-are from a jar behin' the door.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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