flunk out
verb
flunked out; flunking out; flunks out
: to be dismissed from a school or college for failure
: to dismiss from a school or college for failure
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Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2024
If anything, competitive eating became just another way to fold in on myself like a piece of dough, to reframe the consumptive appetites that led to fights, a DWI, and stints of flunking out of college.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 12 July 2024
After working with spray paint at Michigan Central, Diaz enrolled at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit — but flunked out after two years.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024
My own mother flunked out of the MGM Little Red Schoolhouse, for God’s sake, not that that’s very inspiring.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
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Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2024
If anything, competitive eating became just another way to fold in on myself like a piece of dough, to reframe the consumptive appetites that led to fights, a DWI, and stints of flunking out of college.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 12 July 2024
After working with spray paint at Michigan Central, Diaz enrolled at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit — but flunked out after two years.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2024
My own mother flunked out of the MGM Little Red Schoolhouse, for God’s sake, not that that’s very inspiring.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
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“Flunk out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flunk%20out. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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