What does flake mean?
Flake means A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
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/fleɪk/ · noun
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
flakes of dandruff
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life. And when she came back she was nobody's wife.
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.
Admiral: What mean you by flakes? Captain: They are only those several circles or rounds of the roapes or cables, that are quoiled up round.
A flake is the sailor's term for a turn in an ordinary coil, or for a complete tier in a flat coil, as a French or Flemish flake. The current dictionary form of the word is fake, a word that I have never heard used with this meaning. A Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only.
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.
Use flake when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flake means A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
Common synonyms include fleak, bit, chip, peel.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
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