flapjack

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland could be slapped down upon it like a flapjack, and there would still be more than space for another United Kingdom, without covering up all the mud of Borneo.

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  1. noun See pancake.

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  • Goodness knows there won't be much positive to say after this week, but since Sparty should be able to flip EMU like a flapjack, that means you can expect an intense, four-quarter struggle.
  • My plate-sized flapjack was crispy on the edges and cakey on the inside.
  • Remember the tale of the Darwin Award winner who strapped a jet engine to his car, dreaming of a joyride for the ages, and then met his sorry end as a human flapjack on the side of a mountain? —  Fast Company
  • The ones you're thinking of are on there (Pee-Wee's eggcellent contraption, Uncle Buck's giant flapjack), as well as some black-and-white ones that in my opinion don't really do justice to the kind of blinding HD wattage you can get on citrus these days. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • What were you doing before you started this? watching flapjack —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
 

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/ˈflæpdʒæk/
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