Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Flunking"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flunk \Flunk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flunked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flunking}.] [Cf. {Funk}.]
To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking,
through fear.
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