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Definition of: pancake
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(pan′kāk′) noun
1. A thin battercake fried in a pan or baked on a griddle: also pan cake.
2. Aeron. An abrupt or violent landing effected by an airplane which levels off and settles rapidly on a steep flight path.
—v.i. ·caked, ·cak·ing To level off and decelerate an airplane so that it drops to the ground with little forward movement.
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