hotcake
nounEtymology From hot + cake.
1
Canada, Philippines, US Synonym of pancake.
- For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
2
Figuratively Something that sells quickly in large volumes, in the manner of proverbial hotcakes.
- Monsieur Kopay's account of coming-out in the locker room has returned to the printers for a third run. That little hotcake is coming out of Arbor house at a selling rate of 650 copies per day.1977 April 9, David Holland, “People, Places, and Flings”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
3
Alternative, Uncommon Alternative form of hot cake, a cake that is hot.
- Derived terms
- go like hot cakes, like hot cakes, sell like hot cakes