Flake

Word FLAKE
Character 5
Hyphenation flake
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Flake"

What do we mean by flake?

A frame or platform for drying fish or produce. noun

A scaffold lowered over the side of a ship to support workers or caulkers. noun

A flat thin piece or layer; a chip. noun

A stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by percussion or pressure, serving as a preform or as a tool or blade itself. noun

A small piece; a bit. noun

A small crystalline bit of snow. noun

A somewhat eccentric person; an oddball. noun

Cocaine. noun

To remove a flake or flakes from; chip. intransitive verb

To cover, mark, or overlay with or as if with flakes. intransitive verb

To come off in flat thin pieces or layers. intransitive verb

To fall asleep or collapse from fatigue or exhaustion. phrasal verb

To act in an odd or eccentric manner. phrasal verb

To lose interest or nerve. phrasal verb

A small flat or scale-like particle or fragment of anything; a thin fragment; a scale: as, a flake of tallow; a flake of flint; a flake of snow. noun

Among florists, any variety of carnation in which the petals are marked with stripes of one color upon a white ground. noun

To break or separate in flakes or layers; peel or scale off: absolutely or with off.

To form or break into flakes: as, the frost flaked off the plaster.

To cover with or as with flakes; fleck.

Same as fake. noun

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything

A scale of a fish or similar animal

A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.

A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

A flat turn or tier of rope.

N. An unreliable person; someone who agrees to do something, but never follows through. Urban Dictionary

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(verb, oftenly used with "out") - To decide not to go at the last second; To "ditch" or "bail out." Urban Dictionary

N. - someone who is unreliable. Urban Dictionary

A so called friend who is constantly unreliable and shady. A flake is someone who can think up an excuse for everything but their own existence. The behavior that a flake exhibits is a product of their own desire to manipulate people. A flake will find reasons to ditch a friend whenever that person wants to do something that is not on the flakes agenda. They are insidious beings they do not exhibit this behavior when you first meet them but usually much later down the line. A true flake is not the idiot that they would have you believe. Urban Dictionary

N. An unreliable person; someone who agrees to do something, but never follows through. Someone that you can never count on to eat lunch with or go to a party with. Urban Dictionary

A person, friend, or lover that calls you, texts you, emails you, tells you, that they want to hangout and alas they just sit on their fatass and never meet you or get back to you on the reason of their absence. They are big fuckass' that will only cause you many hours of anger and frustration. Urban Dictionary

N: flake A person whose social and psychological outer layer slips away when under pressure. They lack integrity, resilience and robustness. For their protection they depend upon unrealistic and imaginative constructs. --- (I was called out on my use of the word "flake" recently and was challenged to define it. I came up pretty much with the above definition and then went through all the other definitions that people have supplied to the UD for it. I was struck by the consistency of them - especially the self-interest and unreliability. We know who these people are ...) Urban Dictionary

A Frequently unreliable person who says that they will do somthing or attend somthing, but never shows. Usually this is done without notice. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Flake

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The word "flake" in example sentences

What part of ditz, airhead, flake is not being understood? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The thin flake of carbon, the duo created in 2004, just as thick as an atom is exceptionally strong and it conducts electricity like copper. ❋ PhD Santhosh Mathew (2010)

And in the black, black silence of the country night, "the sweep of easy wind and downy flake" is deafeningly beautiful. ❋ M-mv (2004)

Then the thin flake-like brown seeds of the annual Stocks or Gillyflowers; one little square of paper holds the white Princess Alice variety, so many thick double spikes of fragrant snow lie hidden in each thin dry flake! ❋ Unknown (1894)

Recall the flake who shot up the White House with the machinegun? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The type of fish used doesn't really bother me, here in Victoria it is usually shark, gummy or school shark and is called flake in the shops. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I bet there are a few of you that are thinking shark, yuk, but a gummy shark, so named because it has no teeth, is probably the most popular fish in Victoria, served as it is in every fish 'n' chip shop as flake, which is what the flesh does when cooked and as a bonus, there are absolutely no bones in it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The other kind is called flake yse, blue, very hard and thinne not aboue three fadomes thick at the farthest, and this kinde of yse bordreth close vpon the shore. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The nickel flake, which is Edison's ingenious solution of the conductivity problem, is of itself a most interesting product, intensely practical in its application and fascinating in its manufacture. ❋ Unknown (1910)

A flake is a 'fool with energy ', as the Russian proverb puts it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

During the evaporation of the lakes of salt-water, as in artificial salt-works, the salt begins to crystallize near the edges where the water is shallowest, forming hollow inverted pyramids; which, when they become of a certain size, subside by their gravity; if urged by a stronger fire the salt fuses or forms large cubes; whence the salt shaped in hollow pyramids, called flake-salt, is better tasted and preserves flesh better, than the basket or powder salt; because it is made by less heat and thence contains more of the marine acid. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

1. John [called in] sick to work again today. He's such a flake. 2. Mary said she would do [the research] for our [project], but it's been a week and she hasn't done a thing. She's such a flake. ❋ Gargouille (2005)

hey we going to get some flake for your birthday lad, its well strong but its [pricey] a hundred [quid] [a gram] ❋ Merlin Sheets (2012)

[Oh wow]! [Scored] some boss flake last night! Me nose feels like me bird was burning me nostrils with a [lighter] when I was asleep. ❋ Daniella Westbrook (2015)

"You said we were gonna go see the movie! Don't change [your mind] and [flake out]!" "Damn, it's been an hour since we were supposed to meet. I bet she just [flaked out] on me." ❋ Patrick (2003)

we [knew] [chris] wouldn't [show up] 'cuz he's a flake. ❋ Baron S (2005)

Bob secretly does not [like opera], so he tells his friend to buy the tickets anyways and then does not show up. He calls [the friend] at the last minute and says he must study for a test. Of course it's the middle of [summer vacation] though, what a flake. ❋ JJCarnegie (2009)

[Jenny] is a flake, she told me she'd go to that party with me on [Friday], and she found [plans] with some other girl. ❋ Jdawg051994 (2010)

He sent me a text saying: I am gonna see you tonight right? that is the plan? me: yeah, [call me later] and we will be together [fer sure]. ................................... and later that night there is well, no meeting, no sex, and NO call. leaving me to just say: FUCK THAT [FLAKE]!! ❋ Hissyhussy (2006)

There's no [place] for [flakes] [WTSHTF] ❋ GrimlyFiendish (2011)

"Alex isn't here yet, [we need] to start [playing poker]!... I bet he [flaked] again" ❋ John70 (2007)

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