for breakfast, there's bacon and flapjacks with syrup
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That year, Dine Brands’ IHOP, for example, introduced pancakes with 18 grams of protein per flapjack.—Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2025 The flapjacks surely wouldn’t hold up to my memory.—Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2025 Of course, the pancakes are the big draw, including buttermilk and buckwheat flapjacks stuffed with fruit.—Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2025 Highlights are karaoke contest, grapefruit bowling, wheelbarrow races, flapjack toss contest.—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for flapjack
Word History
Etymology
flap entry 2 (in sense "to toss sharply") + the personal name Jack
Note:
For the use of the name Jack to denote a range of roles and objects see jack entry 1.
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