verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flunk an exam American English informal (= fail it )
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I flunked all my first year exams.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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It was, of course, extremely humiliating to flunk out of law school.
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She found out when I flunked out of college.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brant flunked out of college his first year.
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He thought he was going to flunk chemistry, but he got a D.
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He was cutting school and flunking classes.
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I flunked, and had to do the test again.
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She flunked the state bar exam four times before she finally passed.
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She didn't do any of the work, so I flunked her.
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Yesterday I took my driving test and flunked - for the sixth time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yet Simeon flunked virtually every exam, often by a mile.
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But it all went wrong when, some 15 years ago, he flunked math and didn't get into college.
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My worst class was math, and every time we took a test, I was certain I had completely flunked it.
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Progressives have the chance to reshape global institutions; they should not flunk it.
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Punitive and retroactive, our decision is to flunk the student, not the school.
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The begin-ning of real trouble was flunking the bar exam and receiving, in turn, a reduced salary from my firm.
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The first two years they basically just try to flunk everybody out.
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Then Pasternak's office called him and told him that he had flunked the test.