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Flunk   /fləŋk/   Listen
verb
Flunk  v. t.  
1.
To fail in; to fail to pass (a test, examination, or course of study). (Colloq. U.S.)
2.
To shirk, as a task or duty.


Flunk  v. i.  (past & past part. flunked; pres. part. flunking)  To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.


noun
Flunk  n.  A failure or backing out; specifically (College cant), A total failure in a recitation. (U.S.)





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"Flunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... speak before the flunk—before the man, Mr. Pendennis;" on which Mr. Arthur's attendant quitted ...
— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Giddings introduced John, Paul, and Tom, and then the publisher of the Clarion continued with good-humored raillery: "I'm mighty glad to see you fellows here, for I began to think you would get scared and flunk us at the last moment. Was over on the hotel veranda when I saw a plane land here, and I guessed it might be you, and hurried right over. ...
— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser
... he, leaving off his cant, and really looking like a different man, "dod drot it, it is a just punishment. I knock under, I holler, I give in, have mercy on me. Can you rid me of this horrid mark, for I can't flunk out in the street ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... have seen it. The mane bristled up on that dog's back an' his muscles bulged out till he looked like a stone image. We heard him give a low whine, like as if he knowed it was too big a job for a little feller like him. But did he try to flunk it? Not him. Then I knew 'at he wasn't neither a bulldog nor a bull-terrier, but a little sixty-pound hero, willin' to pass out his life any time 'at Bill would ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason
... not speak before the flunk—before the man, Mr. Pendennis;" on which Mr. Arthur's attendant quitted ...
— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray
... are very severe and I've seen the report. Nothing 'foohey' about that. Yes, I have known girls to sail along beautifully in school and flunk everything in college. It ...
— Jane Allen: Junior • Edith Bancroft
... could be smart, devote oneself to study—be a "greasy grind"—and yet fail of prominence; and one could fail to pass—"flunk"—and yet climb to the pinnacle of prominence. Evidently smartness and studiousness had nothing to do with it, and Missy felt a pleasurable thrill. Formerly she had envied Beulah Crosswhite, who wore glasses and ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin


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