Definitions for flake

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Spelling: [fleyk]

IPA: /fleɪk/

Flake is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in flake (aefkl).

Definitions for flake

noun

1. a small, flat, thin piece, especially one that has been or become detached from a larger piece or mass:
2. any small piece or mass:
3. a stratum or layer.
4. Slang. an eccentric person; screwball.
5. Slang. cocaine.
6. a usually broad, often irregular piece of stone struck from a larger core and sometimes retouched to form a flake tool.
7. a frame, as for drying fish.
8. fake2 (defs 2, 3).

verb

1. flake out, Slang. to fall asleep; take a nap.

verb (used with object)

1. to remove in flakes.
2. to break flakes or chips from; break into flakes:
3. to cover with or as if with flakes.
4. to form into flakes.
5. fake2 (def 1).
6. to lower (a fore-and-aft sail) so as to drape the sail equally on both sides over its boom.

verb (used without object)

1. to peel off or separate in flakes.
2. to fall in flakes, as snow.

Origin of flake

1350-1400; (noun) Middle English; akin to Old English flac- in flacox flying (said of arrows), Old Norse flakka to rove, wander, Middle Dutch vlacken to flutter; (in def 4) by back formation

Examples for flake

Michele Bachmann is a “delusional, paranoid zealot,” a “flake.”

And flake, who recently voted for the Violence Against Women Act, might have a hard time winning some women to his fold.

The Foam flake was pretty nearly ready to come by this time.

The impending snow hung over the city but not a flake had fallen as yet.

Presently, flake by flake, the first snow of winter drifted down.

The 2014 midterm elections are just months behind us, but already flake feels the pressure of the 2016 presidential elections.

For the first time in ten years at least, the Foam flake ran away.

If they wait, the conventional wisdom that flake can't lose will become entrenched, says Sabato.

The wind had ceased, but the snow was still falling, here and there a flake.

And over the weekend, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Bachmann if she was a “flake.”