hot cake
noun
1.
a pancake or griddlecake.
Idioms
2.
sell
/
go like hot cakes,
to be disposed of very quickly and effortlessly, especially in quantity:
His record sold like hot cakes on the first day after its release.
Origin
1675-85,
Americanism
Regional variation note
1.
See
pancake.
Slang definitions & phrases for
sell like hot cakes
sell like hot cakes
verb phrase
To enjoy very brisk sales
: The General's book sold like hot cakes
(1839+)
Idioms and Phrases with
sell like hot cakes
sell like hot cakes
see:
like hot cakes