[flʌŋk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- fail to reach the required standard in (an examination, test, or course of study)
(e.g: I flunked biology in the tenth grade)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 19th century (in the general sense ‘back down, fail utterly’; originally US): perhaps related to funk or to US flink ‘be a coward’, perhaps a variant of flinch