Usually means: Failing to pass academic requirements.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. flunking: Merriam-Webster
  2. flunking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. flunking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Flunking, flunking: Wordnik
  5. flunking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. flunking: Wiktionary
  7. Flunking, flunking: Dictionary.com
  8. flunking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Flunking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Flunking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. flunking: FreeDictionary.org
  12. flunking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flunking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flunking: Encyclopedia

(Note: See flunk as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flunk)

verb:  (US, ambitransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
verb:  (US, transitive) Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade.
verb:  (US, dated, informal) To shirk (a task or duty).
verb:  To back out through fear. (Commonly in the phrase 'flunk it', the 'it' referring to a specific task avoided; sometimes without specific reference, describing a person's attitude to life in general.)
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