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.
- Noun. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- Noun. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- Verb. To break or chip off in a flake.
- Verb. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- Verb. (context, technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
- Verb. (Ireland, slang) to hit (another person).
- Noun. (UK) Dogfish.
- Noun. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
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