- pancake⇄noun 1. a thin, flat cake made of batter and fried or baked in a pan or on a griddle.
Ex. To his lips he raised the buckwheat pancakes, dripping with molasses (Maurice Thompson).
2. a quick, almost flat landing made by an aircraft, as a resu - pancake⇄pancake, noun, verb, -caked,-caking.
- pancake⇄v.i. 1. (of an aircraft) to flatten out several feet above the landing surface, stall, and make a quick, almost flat landing.
2. to spread out flat.
Ex. The very abnormal weather conditions ... produced bands of warm air pancaked on top of v - pancake⇄v.t. to cause (an aircraft) to pancake.
Ex. The pilot pancaked his damaged plane onto an open field.