Meaning & use
Flaker
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Informally, a person who repeatedly cancels plans or fails to follow through on commitments; also, a machine that reduces material into flakes.
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He's such a flaker that nobody expects him to actually show up anymore.
The factory installed a new flaker to process the potatoes into flakes for dehydration.
A note on using this word
The informal sense, meaning someone who flakes on plans, grew from the slang verb 'to flake,' popularized in casual American English.
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reliable person
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