What is "flook"

Fluke \Fluke\ (fl[=u]k or fl[=oo]k), n. [Cf. AS. fl[=o]c a kind of flatfish, Icel. fl[=o]ki a kind of halibut.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) The European flounder. See Flounder. [Written also fleuk, flook, and flowk.]

2. (Zo["o]l.) Any American flounder of the genus Paralichthys, especially Paralicthys dentatus, found in the Atlantic Ocean and in adjacent bays.
   --RHUD

3. (Zo["o]l.) A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species ( Fasciola hepatica and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce the disease called rot.

n. A fluke of an anchor.

Flook is an Anglo-Irish band playing traditional-style instrumental music, much of it penned by the band themselves. Their music is typified by extremely fast, sometimes percussive, flute and whistle atop complex guitar and bodhrán rhythms. Flook is made up of Brian Finnegan, Sarah Allen, Ed Boyd and John Joe Kelly

Flook was a British comic strip which ran from 1949 to 1984 in the Daily Mail newspaper. It was drawn by Wally Fawkes (of the jazz group Wally Fawkes and the Troglodytes), who signed the strips as "Trog".

It was the first newspaper comic strip to be published by the New Zealand newspaper Otago Daily Times, where it ran from 1952 to 1979.

Flook is a location-based browsing application and website developed by Ambient Industries located in the United Kingdom, initially for the iPhone. Users of the application create virtual cards, or "Flooks". These cards are made up of a photo of a particular location and a small piece of text describing that location. These Flooks are then recorded with their geographic coordinates so that other Flook users can see where they have been posted when they are using the app. Users typically upload local secrets, places to go and things to see. The application is therefore a wiki of sorts, but is also a combination of Google Maps, StumbleUpon and review websites such as Tripadvisor or Toptable.

Ambient Industries was founded by two former Symbian programmers, Roger Nolan and Jane Sales, who assisted in the construction of much of the Symbian mobile operating system, together with Tristan Brotherton, formerly of Synapsim, Roo and Fluidjuice, and who assisted in the creation of screening software that is now used by Kroll. Flook was launched in December 2009. Ambient Industries has received funding from UK tech investment houses Eden Ventures and Amadeus Capital Partners.

In February 2010, Flook won the Mobile Premier Award in User Experience awarded by Mobile User Experience.

In June 2010, Ambient Industries partnered with Geocast to make flook cards from Geocast's local offers.

Set to cease its service after 25 February 2012 (according to an email sent out to users), its official website is no longer available.