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flunk definition

☆ flunk (fluŋk)

transitive verb

  1. to fail in (schoolwork) to flunk a science examination
  2. to give a mark of failure to (a student)

Etymology: 19th-c. college slang < ? funk or echoic

intransitive verb

  1. to fail, esp. in schoolwork
  2. to give up; retreat

noun

  1. a failure
  2. a mark or grade of failure
flunk Idioms

flunk out

Informal
to send or be sent away from school or college because of unsatisfactory work

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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