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What does flake mean?

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Noun
  1. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
  2. A scale of a fish or similar animal
  3. (archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
  4. (informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
  5. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
Verb
  1. To break or chip off in a flake.
  2. (colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
  3. (technical) To store an item such as rope in layers
  4. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
Noun
  1. (Britain) Dogfish.
  2. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
Noun
  1. (Britain, dialect) 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. (nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
  4. (nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”)
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