pancake: Meaning and Definition of

pan•cake

1. a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.
2. Also calledan airplane landing made by pancaking.

1. (of an airplane or the like) to drop flat to the ground after leveling off a few feet above it.

1. to flatten, esp. as the result of a collision or other mishap: The car had been pancaked by the bus.
2. to cause (an airplane) to pancake.

Pan-Cake

1. a brand of cosmetic in a semimoist cake of compressed powder, usually applied with a moist sponge.