n. 1 snowflake; scale, chip, bit, piece, scrap, particle, tuft, flock, scurf, fragment, shaving, sliver; wafer, lamina, Technical squama A flake of slate caught him in the eye
v. 2 Often, flake off. scale, chip, fragment; Technical desquamate, exfoliate The paint is flaking off on this side 3 flake out. a collapse, go to or fall asleep, drop off (to sleep), pass out, keel over After the game, I flaked out on the couch for ten hours b become flaky, act crazy He flaked out when he heard the new record