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Word: flake (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • UK dogfish
  • 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.
  • archaeology A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  • Australia The meat of the gummy shark.
  • informal A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.

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Verb:

  • colloquial To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  • technical To store an item such as rope in layers
  • slang to hit (another person).
  • To break or chip off in a flake.

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