Pancake (disambiguation)

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Pancake is a batter cake fried in a pan.

Pancake may also mean:

  • In volleyball, a pancake is a pass technique executed by sliding the hand palm-down on the court during a dive, so that the ball bounces off of the back of the hand.
  • Pancake is a form of makeup developed for use in filming. In early Technicolor films, for example, to prevent the actors' faces from looking green.
  • In American football, a pancake block denotes the flattening (pushing to the ground) of an opposing lineman by a blocker.
  • A pancake landing is an emergency aircraft landing maneuver where the craft drops flat onto the ground from a low altitude.
  • In the arts, a "pancake" is a platform 1/8 the size of an apple box.
  • Breece D'J Pancake was a writer of short fiction from West Virginia.
  • The Pancakes, a music group from Hong Kong
  • Pancaking is when a building collapses vertically with its floors and walls lying on top of each other like a collapsed house of cards.
  • A person (usually female) may have a "pancake ass" (source: http://www.urbandictionary.com) if their behind is unusually large, flat and saggy.
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