Word.ws English Dictionary

flunker

flunker noun: someone who has flunked: failed in an examination, been kept back to repeat a grade, or flunked out of school.

Noun

flunker (plural flunkers)

  1. (Canada, US, slang) Someone who has flunked: failed in an examination, been kept back to repeat a grade, or flunked out of school.

Forms of flunker

pluralflunkers

Origin of flunker

From flunk + -er.

Questions about flunker

What does flunker mean?
Flunker means someone who has flunked: failed in an examination, been kept back to repeat a grade, or flunked out of school.
What part of speech is flunker?
Flunker is a noun.
What is the plural of flunker?
The plural of flunker is flunkers.

Words near flunker in the dictionary

  1. flunk out
  2. flunked
  3. flunked out
  4. flunkee
  5. flunkees
  6. flunker
  7. flunkers
  8. flunkey
  9. flunkeydom
  10. flunkeyhood
  11. flunkeyish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flunker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-flunker.ogg.

Cite this entry: “flunker.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/flunker. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.