noun

• (countable and uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
• (countable and uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
  "Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other."
• (uncountable, theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
  "And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park."
• (countable, juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
  "have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible."

verb

• (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
• (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
• (transitive) To flatten violently.
  "Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters[…]"
• (intransitive) To lie out flat, like a pancake; sploot.