hot cake

or hot·cake

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noun
  1. a pancake or griddlecake.

Idioms about hot cake

  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.

Origin of hot cake

1
An Americanism dating back to 1675–85

regional variation note For hot cake

1. See pancake.

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