flake

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.

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.

The center encouraged its devotees to wear lucky red strings around one wrist, which Neumann did for quite a while, until a more sober-minded business person warned him to lose the item or risk confirming his burgeoning reputation as a flake.

A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

To break or chip off in a flake.

The paint flaked off after only a year.

To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.

To store an item such as rope or sail in layers

The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.

To hit (another person).

To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.

When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money.

Dogfish.

The meat of the gummy shark.

Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail sector and through restaurants as ‘flake’.

Susan said, ‘Get me a piece of flake and a serve of chips.’