flunkout
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of flunkout
Noun use of verb phrase flunk out
Example Sentences
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When a professorship of Latin at University College London opened up, the meagerly paid government clerk and Oxford flunkout applied for the job.
From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2017
Thus he can look back dispassionately on the prep-school flunkout he once was, the aimless youth who had decided, at age 16, to be a writer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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