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Definition of Hotcakes
1. hotcake [n] - See also: hotcake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hotcakes
Literary usage of Hotcakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to Trinidad & Tobago by Kathleen O'Donnell, S Harry Pefkaros (2000)
"Travel marketing is big business and phrases like eco-tourism sell travel programs
like hotcakes. Sadly, eco-tourism does not mean that environmentally ..."
2. Fasting: The Ultimate Diet by Allan Cott (1997)
"We held a foodless food sale and raised $100—the bottles of water went like
hotcakes." Oxfam's Fast for a World Harvest inspired suggestions that such fasts ..."
3. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"... noisy congratulations over our fair prospect, at a ripping good breakfast of
hotcakes and shark- steak. Jack had said we would pass Futuna at ten miles. ..."
4. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"... like hotcakes, though, it maintains your transaction in the computer's RAM
until such time as it can write the transaction to disk. ..."
5. Highways and Byways of New England: Including the States of Massachusetts by Clifton Johnson (1915)
"They go like hotcakes. "The campers are always wantin' bait. After harvest we
get crickets for 'em. We find the crickets under the stones. ..."
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