Definition of flake out

flake out

verb - intransitive

to not follow through or to cancel last minute or with little notice.
You flaked out on me again last night!
- See more words with the same meaning: to abandon, leave a person.
Last edited on Jul 24 2010. Submitted by Anonymous from New York, NY, USA on Aug 27 2002.
to fail to follow through with a previous plan.
- See more words with the same meaning: to abandon, leave a person.
Last edited on Oct 14 2018. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.
to stop functioning properly. (When referring to a device.) Especially to stop functioning properly in a strange and/or intermittent way.
My computer has been flaking out lately.
- See more words with the same meaning: broken.
Last edited on Oct 14 2018. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

notes

See also flake.
Last edited on Sep 08 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 08 2011.

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Slang terms with the same meaning

Other terms relating to 'broken':
die	Definitions include: to stop working.
beermat	Definitions include: unwanted optical media (e.g. CDs) received as junk mail.
on the fritz	Definitions include: broken or not functioning properly.
janky	Definitions include: broken or functioning poorly or improperly; "messed up".
tweak	Definitions include: to be under the influence of methamphetamine.
fritzy	Definitions include: malfunctioning.
key	Definitions include: great.
bug	Definitions include: to pester or annoy.
take out	Definitions include: to injure or destroy.
showstopper	Definitions include: a bug that makes hardware or software unusable.
twacked	Definitions include: Messed up, wrong, not working correctly.
give up the ghost	Definitions include: to die.
stove up	Definitions include: stiff, sore.
barf	Definitions include: to vomit.
screwed	Definitions include: Past tense of "screw".
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Other terms relating to 'to abandon, leave a person':
piss off	Definitions include: to leave.
bail on	Definitions include: to leave (a relationship) or abandon.
ditch out	Definitions include: to leave an event or conversation.
fake	Definitions include: to fail to meet someone at a designated location.
ditch	Definitions include: to leave behind.
stand up	Definitions include: to skip a pre-arranged meeting, especially a date.
leave in the lurch	Definitions include: to leave someone in a bad situation.
juke	Definitions include: to defraud; "swindle".
out in the cold	Definitions include: excluded.
*ss out	Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
flake on	Definitions include: See flake.
*btch out**	Definitions include: to not do something out of fear; "chicken out".
munson	Definitions include: to abandon, to leave; "ditch".

Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'flake':
*eat (one's) btch flakes**	Definitions include: To be in an extremely bad mood.
flake	Definitions include: To not show up or call or do whatever you were supposed to be.
flake on	Definitions include: See flake.
happy flakes	Definitions include: any powdered drug that makes the drug taker happier or more energetic.
Other terms relating to 'out':
all blowed out	Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched.
amped-out	Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use.
as all get-out	Definitions include: very; really; extremely.
ask (one) out	Definitions include: to ask a person on a date.
*ss out	Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
back one out	Definitions include: to defecate; "poop".
bail out	Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail.
bait out	Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch".
bake-out	Definitions include: a session of getting baked (i.e. high from marijuana.)
ball out	Definitions include: to leave.
balls out	Definitions include: See also balls to the wall.
bang out	Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury.
beast out	Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work.
beat (one's) brains out	Definitions include: to beat severely.
*beat seven shades of sht out of**	Definitions include: to beat severely.
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