Definitions
come off in flakes or thin small pieces
Word origin
A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.
Used in a sentence
“There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.”
“flakes of dandruff”
“And you treated my woman to a flake of your life. And when she came back she was nobody's wife.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Tiny snow piece”5 letters
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