hot cake

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ˈhot ˌcake or ˈhotˌcake, n. [countable]

1. Food a pancake or griddlecake.

Idioms

2. Idioms sell or go like hot cakes, [no obj] to be bought, taken, or used up very quickly.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

hot′ cake′, 

1. Food a pancake or griddlecake.
2. Idioms sell or go like hot cakes, to be disposed of very quickly and effortlessly, esp. in quantity:
   His record sold like hot cakes on the first day after its release.
• 1675–85, American.
Regional Variation
1. See pancake.