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hot cake

 noun
     
hot cake British English ; hot‧cake American English [countable]
1

be selling/going like hot cakes

if things are selling like hot cakes, they are very popular and people are buying a lot of them very quickly:
Copies of the book are selling like hot cakes.
2 American English a pancake
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