pancake

A flat cake made by cooking a mixture of flour, eggs, and milk in a frying pan.

• I made pancakes for breakfast.
• Turn the pancake when its edges look dry.
• Would you like lemon on your pancake?

Common phrases: make a pancake, pancake batter, thin pancake

Something that is very thin and flat.

• The box was crushed into a pancake.
• This pancake lens fits easily in my bag.
• The cushion had become a flat pancake.

Common phrases: flat as a pancake, pancake lens, into a pancake