flake

  1. 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.
  2. Noun.  (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  3. Noun.  (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
  4. Verb.  To break or chip off in a flake.
  5. Verb.  (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  6. Verb.  (context, technical) To store an item such as rope in layers.
  7. Verb.  (Ireland, slang) to hit (another person).
  8. Noun.  (UK) Dogfish.
  9. Noun.  (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.

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