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flay

[fley] / fleɪ /
VERB
remove skin, bark, hide, etc.
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Antonyms
STRONG




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Competition shows attract the male audience who love sports, because “it’s suspenseful, it’s cutthroat,” says Amanda Freitag, a celebrity chef who battled and narrowly lost to Iron Chef Bobby Flay in 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

“Worst Cooks in America was the funnest show on TV,” Flay wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Wonder’s opening salvo, in 2021, was flooding the New Jersey suburbs with hundreds of Mercedes Sprinter vans that could cook menus designed by celebrity chefs like Bobby Flay or José Andrés in customers’ driveways.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2024

Mr Flay was born in Devon but moved to Shipman's hunting ground of Hyde for five years when he was three.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023

Fley, Flay, flā, v.t. to cause to fly: to frighten.—v.i. to be frightened.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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