to flunk
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5.6
- verb
- /flʌŋk/
- Informal
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suspender
- I studied hard for my exams, but I ended up flunking math.
- students flunk
- flunk first grade
So if you use that word in your homework problems, you will flunk the course.
- So if you use that word in your homework problems, you will flunk the course.
- So I signed up for two speech classes my freshman year, flunked them both.
- And so, so I, I flunked all the classes, but I took them all and, and flunked out six more times.
- And by the time I got to the, I went to an Academy and I was flunking out of school for calculus, three or three years of calculus, I couldn't do a damn thing.
- I read all the time and I have flunked this topic.
- So when he had to learn Afrikaans in school and you know, he flunks it or when he has to learn certain things.
- Now you're, you have breast cancer and it's progressing and you enter a trial and you flunk the trial because you had disease progression.
- You foisted off as he says this schizoid girl on me to flunk the test and now I'm not going to get to try it out on any of your actual androids.
- And so they signed me up, transferred to phys Ed, still flunked out.
Examples
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How did you survive flunking out of school?
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Many students worry that they might flunk an important test.
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So if you use that word in your homework problems, you will flunk the course.
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I'm gonna flunk out of Gates.
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To make things worse, I flunked a French quiz this morning.
Fiction book (1993) -
What happens if a student flunks out or is expelled?
Academic text (2002) -
Science posed a problem; I had flunked chemistry in high school.
Academic text (2004) -
So after the first year of high school, I had flunked biology and so I needed to retake it.
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So I went to MIT and promptly flunked out by Christmas of my freshman year.
Academic text (2008) -
If you don't prepare, you risk flunking the final course assessment.
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Etymology
The word flunk is American school slang from the early 1900s that means 'to fail' a test. A helpful way to remember it is to think of flop, which also sounds like a sudden fall — so to flunk a test is to 'fall' short of a passing grade.