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flunk
[ fluhngk ]
verb (used without object)
- to fail in a course or examination.
verb (used with object)
- to fail to get a passing mark in:
to flunk math.
- to give a failing grade to; remove (a student) as unqualified from a school or course.
noun
- a failure, as in a course or examination.
verb phrase
- to fail and be unable to continue in:
He flunked out of flight school.
flunk
/ flʌŋk /
verb
- to fail or cause to fail to reach the required standard in (an examination, course, etc)
- intrfoll byout to be dismissed from a school or college through failure in examinations
noun
- a low grade below the pass standard
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- un·flunked adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flunk1
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Example Sentences
An example of a law that would flunk the rational basis test is one that prohibits people born on Tuesdays from driving.
Did President Obama flunk Con Law at his news conference Monday?
If Grutter is given more teeth, many affirmative-action programs around the country could flunk constitutional scrutiny.
The school is known in wealthy circles as “Dumb White Kids Getting High Together,” but Hilton actually managed to flunk out.
I passed everything with the utmost ease—I know the secret now, and am never going 134 to flunk again.
Sometimes he felt that he would enjoy, yes, actually, hearing somebody 223 flunk in one of his classes.
Most men do, I say, they usually work at it, study at it good enough so they don't flunk out.
I wonder if I could do it; seems 's if I would now, but flesh is weak, and I might flunk, and that would settle it.
And if I flunk, I have to work in the garden all summer without a single fishing trip.
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