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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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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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