FLAKE

Flake

Flake is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury Ireland and consists of thinly folded Dairy Milk milk chocolate.

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flake

Noun

  1. 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.
    There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
    flakes of dandruff
  2. A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  3. A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
    She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.
  4. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Dogfish.
  2. The meat of the gummy shark.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A paling; a hurdle.
  2. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
  3. A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.

Verb

  1. To break or chip off in a flake.
    The paint flaked off after only a year.
  2. To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
    He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
  3. To store an item such as rope in layers
    The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
  4. to hit (another person).


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