Usually means: Thin, small piece; breaks off.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. flake: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flake, flake, flake, flake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flake, flake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flake: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flake, flake: Wordnik
  7. flake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Flake, flake: Wiktionary
  9. flake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flake: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flake: Dictionary.com
  13. flake (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Flake (KDE), Flake (band), Flake (chocolate bar), Flake (fish), Flake (software), Flake (song), Flake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Flake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. flake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. flake: Rhymezone
  19. flake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. flake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. flake: Free Dictionary
  22. flake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. flake: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. flake: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. flake: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flake: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. flake: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flake: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Flake: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. flake, flake, flake, flake, flake, flake: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Flake: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Flake: 1960's Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flake: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Flake: Latitude Mexico

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

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