v. in comedy: when a stand-up comic starts strong and engages the crowd well but ends weakly and has lost the audience.
Term made popular by Mitch Hedberg.
"Pancakes are great when you start eating them, but by the time you get to the end your totally sick of them. That's why pancaking is a going to be a new comedy term, because some comics start off great. By the time their ending their act, though, you're sick of them. 'Hey, look at Mitch up there! He's totally pancaking!'"
The act of running towards someone smaller than you, thrusting your full body weight onto them, and causing them to be lying flat on the ground with you laying flat on top of them after impact. Your bodies create the illusion of a short stack.
"Dude, did you see what she did to Evan?"
"Yeah, she totally pancaked him. He's still just laying there on the floor. Do you think he'll be alright?"
"I don't know. That pancaking was pretty hard core."
"Yeah it was."
In the squirrels community, pancaking is a type of physical form of relaxation. It's when a squirrel is so relaxed that it will lay down on it's stomach with it's back legs flat out and just lay there all content. It's called pancaking because of the way they seem to become as flat as a pancake during this activity.
"It's so cute how Hermione loves to pancake on top of my head!"
"Look at that group of pancaking squirrels on the rock over there!"
"Ginny was all pancaked out last night on top of her cage before bed! She was so sleepy!"