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birthday cake

noun

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  1. A cake, often iced and decorated, made to celebrate a person's birthday.

    • “I almost ran away.” / “But you didn’t,” Hallie said seriously. / “We stayed for birthday cake.” Portia sat cross-legged on the bed. “Alfonso’s niece was afraid of the candles and Alfonso helped her blow them out.[…]”
    • We sit around chatting, with plates of birthday cake on our laps that none of us have got the stomach for.

  2. In particular, a buttery, frosted vanilla cake of the sort commonly made to celebrate…

    In particular, a buttery, frosted vanilla cake of the sort commonly made to celebrate birthdays in the US, used in compound words to attribute a buttery or creamy, sugary, vanilla cake flavour or aroma to other things.

    • Pat crushed up a package of birthday cake Oreos and sprinkled them over birthday cake ice cream.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA