Definition of "pancake" []

• A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake. (noun)
• To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing. (verb-transitive)
• To make a pancake landing. (verb-intransitive)

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• "And many of the dogs were what we call pancake dogs."
• "And how we're finding these is, we're seeing that most of the collapses that have occurred here are what we call pancake-style collapse."
• "Olympus has a limited edition "Komachi Kit" available for the holiday season, which includes an E-420 SLR camera body ($440 alone) and a 25mm f/2.8 Zuiko Digital lens, which they call a pancake lens due to its very small size."