cake1 S2 W3 1 [uncountable and countable]DF a soft sweet food
made by baking a mixture of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs: cake
and ice cream Do you want some birthday cake? slice/piece of
cake Would you like a slice of cake? make/bake a cake Sally
decided to bake him a cake. fish, rice etc that has been formed
into a flat round shape and then cooked a small block of
something a cake of soap to be very easy: 'How do you do that?'
'It's a piece of cake! Watch!' 5 also take the biscuit British
English informal to be worse than anything else you can imagine:
I've heard some pretty dumb ideas, but that takes the cake! 6
British English have your cake and eat it too American English
spoken to have all the advantages of something without its
disadvantages 7 British English a share of the profit, help etc
that is available: Both companies expect to get a big slice of
the cake.