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  1.  A backing out, a total failure, esp. in a college examination.

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1846.  Yale Banger, 10 Nov. (B. H. Hall, College Words). This, 0, [signifying neither beginning nor end,] Tutor H—— said meant a perfect flunk.

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1853.  Songs of Yale (Bartlett).

        In moody meditation sunk,
Reflecting on my future flunk,
  Up the stone steps I crawl.

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  2.  (See quot.)

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1893.  Farmer, Slang, Flunk, an idler, a loafer.

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