pancaked

Variant of pancake

noun

  1. a thin, flat cake of batter fried on a griddle or in a pan; griddlecake; flapjack
  2. a landing in which the airplane levels off higher than for a normal landing, stalls, then drops almost vertically
  3. ☆ pancake makeup

intransitive verb, transitive verb pancaked, pancaking

to make, or cause (an airplane) to make, a pancake landing
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