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flake- (noun)
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.
- (verb)
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- The paint flaked off after only a year.
- To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
- To store an item such as rope in layers
- The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
- to hit (another person).
- (noun)
- The meat of the gummy shark.