[
US
/ˈfɫəŋk/
]
[ UK /flˈʌŋk/ ]
[ UK /flˈʌŋk/ ]
VERB
-
fail to get a passing grade
She studied hard but failed nevertheless
Did I fail the test?
NOUN
-
failure to reach a minimum required performance
his failing the course led to his disqualification
he got two flunks on his report
How To Use flunk In A Sentence
- And so we, lowly flunk from the salt mines, introduced our boss's boss (and others) to Mr Sinha. Archive 2007-10-01
- She flunked biology examination.
- I personally "flunked" the medical exam for the low-cost IMSS insurance because of high cholesterol. Mexico living: five questions
- Carlotta was a "prod"; it was only because she came at the end of the alphabet that she was left out, but thanks to Betty's fly-away fashion of running off to speak to some junior ushers, and then calling the Blunderbuss, whose mother wanted to see her a minute, nobody could find out positively who it was that had been "flunked out" of 19 --. Betty Wales Senior
- A liveried flunkey doffed his cap and drove the Peugeot away while others dutifully hauled luggage about.
- If we are to reject foreign intervention and reunify the country independently, we must categorically oppose flunkeyism towards great powers.
- These sound pretty feeble reasons for Tony Blair to flunk the great test of his leadership.
- After driving across America with two girlfriends in the summer of 1964, Judee flunked out of college.
- But if you set foot in Delphi, if you send any of your little flunkies after any of my people, I'll come after you.
- It was full of monuments to the dependents of peers, in which the peers figured very largely and the dependents fared humbly -- the epitome of flunkeydom. A Student in Arms Second Series