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Definition of Flunking
1. flunk [v] - See also: flunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flunking
Literary usage of Flunking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"We made our earliest call while the man first called up in the division-room was
deliberately and gracefully "flunking." — Ibid., Vol. XIV. p. 190. ..."
2. There's Room for Me Here: Literacy Workshop in the Middle School by Janet Allen, Kyle Gonzalez (1998)
"Reading Reading Now that you have finished reading The flunking of Joshua T.
Bates, please read through the statements that you answered earlier. ..."
3. Folio (1882)
"C. flunking, soprano; Marion G. Osgood, solo violinist; Annie Burton, contralto;
... Mine, flunking wi I give a grnnd aria and finale of the first act of La ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1762)
"Put them into a gallon 1 flunking oil: and having mixed theni well together, ...
Take a gallon of crude flunking oil, or of Inch as is ..."