<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a small, flat, thin piece, especially one that has been or become detached from a larger piece or mass: flakes of old paint</li><li>any small piece or mass: a flake of snow</li><li>a stratum or layer</li><li>Slang: an eccentric person; screwball</li><li>Slang: cocaine</li><li>a broad, often irregular piece of stone struck from a larger core and sometimes retouched to form a flake tool</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>flaked, flak·ing</li><li>to peel off or separate in flakes</li><li>to fall in flakes, as snow</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>flaked, flak·ing</li><li>to remove in flakes</li><li>to break flakes or chips from; break into flakes: to flake fish for a casserole</li><li>to cover with or as if with flakes</li><li>to form into flakes</li></ul>