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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



... Oscar with sarcasm. "I am quite aware that you are at the pinnacle of eminence, even if you do flunk in Greek occasionally." ...
— Risen from the Ranks - Harry Walton's Success • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... 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 street ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... drawback,—it cannot be done. He has tried throwing himself into his studies, but they closed over him without a trace. Talk about records,—he will be glad enough if he gets through his examinations without a dead flunk. As for not thinking about Winifred, he says I have not helped him to the desired end by what I wrote about Mr. Flint and his attentions. Of course, Ben says, he could not expect that Winifred would wait for him. In these days no man could hope to ...
— Flint - His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes • Maud Wilder Goodwin
... West was shaking hands vigorously with Miriam and Elfreda. "I'm so glad to know you," she said, "and I think I'm going to like you. I'm not so sure about liking college, even though I've worked so hard to get here. I hope to goodness I don't flunk in ...
— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... into English for class-room, I was turning out more or less deformed verse of my own, or rapt in the contemplation of some plot for story or play. But somehow I got through school without a decided flunk. In the mean time some of my lines had found their way into print, and the little cheques I received for them had set my head buzzing with dreams of wealth to be made by my pen. If we could only pass the pitfalls of that dreaming age ...
— The Uncalled - A Novel • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... me to do all sorts of things with you, Flora, and then you sneak off and study on the quiet and leave me to flunk because I promised you I ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst


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