flake
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Is flake a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
2. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.Examples: "She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action."; "The center encouraged its devotees to wear lucky red strings around one wrist, which Neumann did for quite a while, until a more sober-minded business person warned him to lose the item or risk confirming his burgeoning reputation as a flake."informal
3. (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.Examples: "When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money."USslang
verb (English)
1. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.Examples: "He said he'd come and help, but he flaked."colloquial
2. (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layersExamples: "The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment."
3. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).Irelandslang
4. (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.Examples: "When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money."USslang
noun (English)
1. (UK) Dogfish.UKuncountable
2. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.Examples: "Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail sector and through restaurants as ‘flake’."; "Susan said, ‘Get me a piece of flake and a serve of chips.’"; "The local fish shop sold a bit of flake (shark) but most people were too spoiled to eat shark. The main item on the Kiwi table was still snapper, and there was plenty of them, caught by the Kiwis themselves, so no shortage whatsoever."Australiauncountable
noun (English)
1. (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.UKdialectal
2. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
3. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).Examples: "Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate to splice his own on to."alt-ofalternative
Definition source: Wiktionary