pancake

  1. Noun.  A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
  2. Noun.  (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
  3. Noun.  (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.
  4. Verb.  To make a pancake landing.
  5. Verb.  (context, construction) To collapse one floor after another.
  6. Verb.  To flatten violently.

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