Meaning

• Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

• (of a person) Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

• (of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely to malfunction.

  "I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection."