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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After working with spray paint at Michigan Central, Diaz enrolled at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit — but flunked out after two years.
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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
Already, Rashad had flunked out of eighth grade and gone to summer school to catch up.
—Emily Davies, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
That very day in 1963, Mr. Epstein had borrowed his stepfather’s car and driven from New York City to the Cornell campus in upstate Ithaca, N.Y., to try to wangle his way back into school after having flunked out seven years earlier.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
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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
Already, Rashad had flunked out of eighth grade and gone to summer school to catch up.
—Emily Davies, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
That very day in 1963, Mr. Epstein had borrowed his stepfather’s car and driven from New York City to the Cornell campus in upstate Ithaca, N.Y., to try to wangle his way back into school after having flunked out seven years earlier.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
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“Flunk out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flunk%20out. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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