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Flakes

/fleɪks/

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

📖 Definitions of "Flakes"

noun

1
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
2
A trick; a swindle.
3
A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

noun

1
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

noun

1
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."
2
A scale of a fish or similar animal
3
A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
4
A 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."

verb

1
To break or chip off in a flake.
"The paint flaked off after only a year."
2
To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
"He said he'd come and help, but he flaked."
3
To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
"The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment."
4
To hit (another person).

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
flake offverb	(ambitransitive) To (cause to) come off in flakes.
chipnoun	A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
flecknoun	A small spot or streak; a speckle.
scrapnoun	(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
peelnoun	(usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
peel offverb	(transitive) To remove (an outer layer or covering, such as clothing).
snowflakenoun	A crystal of snow, having approximate hexagonal symmetry.
bitnoun	(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
bitsnoun	(MLE) Neighbourhood; hood; manor; ends.
burrsnoun	A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
cerealsnoun	(uncountable) Breakfast cereal.
chipsnoun	(slang) A carpenter.
crumbsnoun	A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
deadnoun	(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
flashesnoun	A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
flecksnoun	A small spot or streak; a speckle.
flocsnoun	A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
floesnoun	A low, flat mass of floating ice.
fragmentsnoun	A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
glassesnoun	Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes.