flunkout
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of flunkout
Noun use of verb phrase flunk out
Example Sentences
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When a professorship of Latin at University College London opened up, the meagerly paid government clerk and Oxford flunkout applied for the job.
From Washington Post
Thus he can look back dispassionately on the prep-school flunkout he once was, the aimless youth who had decided, at age 16, to be a writer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Parsons eventually lost its accreditation and earned the nickname of "FlunkOut U."
From Time Magazine Archive
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