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FLAKES
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Classic
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Big
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Super Big
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pts
FLAKES is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.
FLAKES root FLAKE-s
Word family
noun
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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
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
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informalA 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.
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- USslangA corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
- A wire rack for drying fish.
- UKuncountableDogfish.
- AustraliauncountableThe meat of the gummy shark.
- UKdialectalA paling; a hurdle.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
- alternativeAlternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).
verb
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To break or chip off in a flake.
- The paint flaked off after only a year.
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colloquialTo prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
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To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
- IrelandslangTo hit (another person).
- USslangTo plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
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To lay out on a flake for drying.
- flake a fish