flake out
informal to collapse or fall asleep as through extreme exhaustion
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How to use flake out in a sentence
When you flake out to Sasha Grey while doing these jobs, bad things can happen.
Other Idioms and Phrases with flake out
Drop from exhaustion, faint. For example, After running the marathon, be simply flaked out on the ground. This expression possibly is derived from a now obsolete meaning of flake, “to become flabby or fall in folds.” [Slang; c. 1940]
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