flunk out

verb

flunked out; flunking out; flunks out

intransitive verb

: to be dismissed from a school or college for failure

transitive verb

: 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 See all Example Sentences for flunk out