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1. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
   - battercake, flannel cake [US], flannel-cake [US], flapcake [N. Amer], flapjack [N. Amer], griddlecake, hotcake, hot cake

1. Become flat or flatter
   "The landscape pancaked";
   - flatten, flatten out
    
2. Make flat or flatter
   "pancake a road";
   - flatten
    
3. (of an aircraft) make a pancake landing (emergency landing without wheels)

Derived forms: pancaked, pancakes, pancaking

Type of: cake, change form, change shape, deform, form, shape

Encyclopedia: Pancake Pancake, WV Pancake, West Virginia