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flake
verb- to plant evidence on a suspected criminal US
- They were rather casual about this, sometimes flaking bookmakers with numbers slips or numbers runners with bookmaking records, a practice which infuriated the gamblers more than being arrested. — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 83, 1972
- Serpico would see a plainclothesman count the plays carried by someone he had searched, and when the number fell short of the required hundred, “flake” his prisoner–add additional plays to make up the difference. — Peter Maas, Serpico, p. 113, 1973
- “And with the pancake flour you threatened to flake some junkie in the street, is that right?” — Robert Daley, Prince of the City, p. 331, 1978
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 52, 1996
- to fall asleep; to pass out US
Often used as the variant “flake out”. - Q: What will you do until then? A: I’m gonna flake out. Q: What? A: Pat the pad, sack out, lay in the sun — Max Shulman, Guided Tour of Campus Humor, p. 106, 1955
- He was just about conscious until we got him back to the mess; then he flaked out. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 103, 1959
- — Robert George Reisner, The Jazz Titans, p. 155, 1960
- After a particularly hectic party at a newspaper office she flaked out and slept the night on the chief sub’s table. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 100, 1967
- Do youse reckon I could flake at your dump for the arvo? — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 58, 1968
- Twenty minutes later he flakes and they lead him into the back of Sutton’s junk and amp carting van. — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 4, 1970
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 40, 1984
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