as in pancake
a flat cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides (as on a griddle)
had a big plate of slapjacks with syrup for breakfast on his birthday
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Recent Examples of slapjack
The indictment says that Perna — armed with a club known as a slapjack — and an unidentified member of his crew followed Cantin to a strip mall in Passaic County and attacked him in the parking lot.
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NBC News, 16 Dec. 2020
NBC News, 16 Dec. 2020
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pancake
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From South India and Sri Lanka come emphatic roasts and stews, the pageantry of lamprais (a whole meal baked in banana leaf) and lacy hoppers, fermented rice flour pancakes with sides that slope upward as if in bloom.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Try a make-ahead breakfast casserole or a large-format blueberry pancake.—
Hannah Lee Leidy,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
9 May 2026
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“Slapjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slapjack. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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