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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



... nothing new, only the information is classified top-secret in our world; and evidently in yours, too. It has to be withheld from hype-trainees, otherwise they might deliberately flunk their course. We're running pilot classes here on our track, too. We have to ...
— Next Door, Next World • Robert Donald Locke
... that the fellows would all be coming down to the boat club landing to work on the houseboat, because we had it fixed that they would all be there by nine o'clock. I wasn't going to flunk on that, you can bet, but I thought if I told them about the footprint they'd let Westy and me off for a little while, because if a scout is after a merit badge he can usually get leave all right. Anyway, that's the way it is in our troop. ...
— Roy Blakeley • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... you aren't," Polly replied, sternly. "I never saw such a silly exhibition of flunk. If I had any one to put in your place, I would; but ...
— Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School • Dorothy Whitehill
... heart. Life-friends he knew, for there was a cord binding their four hearts together with a little tenderer tie than bound them to any of the other fellows. They had been together all the four years, and if all went well, and Bill Ward didn't flunk anything more, they would all four go out into the world as men together at ...
— The Witness • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... 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


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