flake

  • 71flake out — intransitive verb Etymology: probably from dialect flake to lie, bask Date: 1939 1. slang to fall asleep 2. slang to be overcome especially by exhaustion …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 72flake bough — a branch of a spruce or fir tree spread on the flake (q.v.) to allow air to circulate and help dry the fish …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 73flake off — phr verb Flake off is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑paint …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 74flake off — Synonyms and related words: be off, beat it, begone, clear out, desquamate, exfoliate, flake, get, get going, get lost, get out, git, hit the road, make yourself scarce, peel, scale, scale off, scram, shove off, vamoose …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 75flake off — v To leave. I told my brother to flake off because he was bothering me. 1960s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang

  • 76flake out — vb 1. American to leave (a place). An American teenagers idiom in use since the late 1970s. 2. American to act eccentrically. From flake and flaky. 3. to collapse from weariness, fall asleep. In this sense the word is now a common colloquialism.… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 77flake off — see flake 2) …

    English dictionary

  • 78flake out — (Slang) flop, disappointment (Example: The play was a flake out ) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 79flake out — informal fall asleep; drop from exhaustion. → flake …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 80flake catfish — žvaigždėtasis katryklis statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Scyliorhinus stellaris angl. dogfish; flake catfish; great spotted dogfish; large spotted dogfish; nurse hound rus. звёздчатая кошачья акула;… …

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