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- noun Someone who has failed in an
examination
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Examples
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GCSE flunker Angelique delivers her withering verdict on new politics teacher Alastair Campbell Jamie's Dream School, 9pm, Wed, Channel 4.
From Alastair Campbell to Childish Gambino, this week's winners and losers 2011
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James Franco has been my favorite in these films; it's obvious he's had enormous fun playing the character who goes from high school flunker to monomaniacal business mogul.
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Hillary was an undistinguished lawyer the smartest woman in the world but a bar exam flunker largely trading on hubby's clout, then a housewife, and then a 1+ term Senator of middling at best accomplishment.
"As the red light atop the camera went dark... there was still much more I wanted to say to Chris Matthews, much more that I needed to say." Ann Althouse 2008
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Massachusetts bar exam flunker drops his lawsuit o...
09/08/2007 2007
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Massachusetts bar exam flunker drops his lawsuit over marriage equality question by on
09/08/2007 2007
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Lucius Cassius, alias The Roman, master of the Latin line and distinguished flunker of boys.
The Varmint Owen Johnson 1915
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What a revenge that would be, the proud and haughty Roman, the greatest flunker of them all, the Roman of the caustic tongue and the all-seeing eye, actually clinging to his hand, stammering out his thanks ... the Roman whose mocking voice still echoed in his memory, "Don't dream, John, don't do it!"
Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915
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What has this little flunker ever done in his life?
Shadow Warrior 2009
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