hot cake


noun

a pancake or griddlecake.

Idioms for hot cake

    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

An Americanism dating back to 1675–85

regional variation note for hot cake

1. See pancake.

Idioms and Phrases with sell like hot cakes

sell like hot cakes

see like hot cakes.