pancake

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"Komachi Kit" available for the holiday season, which includes an E-420 SLR camera body ($440 alone) and a 25mm f / 2.8 Zuiko Digital lens, which they call a pancake lens due to its very small size.

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  1. noun A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.
  2. transitive verb To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.
  3. intransitive verb To make a pancake landing.

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  • "Komachi Kit" available for the holiday season, which includes an E-420 SLR camera body ($440 alone) and a 25mm f / 2.8 Zuiko Digital lens, which they call a pancake lens due to its very small size. —  Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
  • This pancake is not "weightless and fluffy" like a buttermilk pancake, but a bit more dense, hearty and egg-y. —  Culinary in the Desert
  • When you hear the word pancake, what first pops into your head? —  Article Source
  • I always see them - flat as a pancake, a frog-shaped pancake - JUST as I'm about to step on them, and I FLY, like, 2 feet in the air. —  Cheaty Monkey
  • If he knows_, for example, that the Earth is flat, but round like a pancake, your contention that it is round like a ball will make no impression upon his mind whatever. —  Anything You Can Do ...
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