Flake

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Flake may refer to:

In food preparation:

• Fish flake, a platform for drying cod
• Flake (fish), an Australian term for edible flesh of one of several species of shark
• Flake (chocolate), a chocolate bar

In science:

• Lithic flake, a fragment of stone found in archaeology
• Snowflake, a particle of snow
• Flake tobacco, used in a smoking pipe (tobacco)
• Flakes of dandruff
• Flake, a slang term for cocaine
• Flake, a software library for KDE

People:

• Jeff Flake, American politician
• Christian "Flake" Lorenz, German musician and member of the band Rammstein
• Fay Kogan, The biggest flake in New York. Actually make that the universe. Aka "Flakogan"

In music:

• Flake, the original name of the band Flake Music, the predecessor of The Shins
• Flake (Australia band), a group formed in 1969, considered part of the third wave of Australian rock
• Flake (Seattle band), an American power pop trio from Seattle, formed in 1992
• "Flake", a song from the 2001 album Brushfire Fairytales by Jack Johnson
• "Flakes", a song from the 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti by Frank Zappa.
• "Flake", an early song from the "Untitled 1995 Demo Tape" by System of a Down.

In film and literature:

• Flakes (film), a 2007 film with Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel
• Flakes (manga), a manga anthology by Naoki Yamamoto
• Flake, a fictional rat in The Deptford Mouselets series of novels by Robin Jarvis