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kung flu

/ˈkʌŋ ˈfluː/

kung flu noun: synonym of COVID-19.

Noun (1)

kung flu (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, offensive) Synonym of COVID-19.
    • Hart: Kung Flu Virus will blow over2020 February 20, headline, Chattanooga Times Free Press
    • "By the way, it's a disease, without question, has more names than any other in history. I can name, ‘kung flu,’ I can name, 19 different versions of names," Trump said.2020 June 23, Eliza Relman, quoting Donald Trump, “White House press secretary says Trump's racist 'kung flu' comment was 'linking' the coronavirus 'to its place of origin'”, in Business Insider
    Synonyms:
    COVID-19

Noun (2) capitalized: Kung Flu

Kung Flu (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of kung flu.

Noun (3) capitalized: Kung flu

Kung flu (uncountable)

  1. (misspelling) Misspelling of kung flu and Kung Flu.

Synonyms of kung flu

Forms of kung flu

alternative formKung flu
alternative formKung Flu

Origin of kung flu

Blend of kung fu + flu, in reference to the disease's presumed origin in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.

Words that rhyme with kung flu

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Questions about kung flu

What does kung flu mean?
Kung flu means synonym of COVID-19.
What part of speech is kung flu?
Kung flu is a noun.
How do you pronounce kung flu?
Kung flu is pronounced /ˈkʌŋ ˈfluː/.

Words near kung flu in the dictionary

  1. Kuneste
  2. Kuney
  3. Kunfunadhoo
  4. Kung
  5. Kung Bandar
  6. kung flu
  7. kung fu
  8. kung fued
  9. kung fuing
  10. Kung Hei Fat Choi
  11. Kung Kung

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kung flu (page history and authors); Kung Flu (page history and authors); Kung flu (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.

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