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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