flake
IPA: fɫˈeɪk
noun
- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- (informal) 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.
- (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- (UK) Dogfish.
- (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
- (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- A surname.
- (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”) [Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.]
verb
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- (technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
- (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
- To lay out on a flake for drying.
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