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Flunk   /fləŋk/   Listen
Flunk

verb
(past & past part. flunked; pres. part. flunking)
1.
Fail to get a passing grade.  Synonyms: bomb, fail, flush it.  "Did I fail the test?"






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"Flunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... pass, I get my choice of three dandy fishing rods," he explained to Rosemary. "And if I flunk, I have to work in the garden all summer without ...
— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence

... and then the upper house bell, and Charles Tolls horses came galoping down to the fountain ingine house with Mat Sleeper driving. And Mager Blakes horses went by jest lickety larup for the Torrent ingine house with old Brown driving, and then Flunk Ham came piling into the church and said, give me that roap and he puled like time, then sum peeple came runing in and said where is the fire, and Flunk he said we dident know, and then we herd the ingine and went out and they was the Torrent ...
— 'Sequil' - Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First • Henry A. Shute

... Slick," said 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 ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton



Words linked to "Flunk" :   failure, passing, bomb, pass, failing, flush it, fail



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