fluke v.1
to fail; as fluke up, to do badly.
Eton School Days 203: I think I shall fluke doing Verses. | ||
Daily Trib. (Bismarck, ND) 23 Oct. 4/1: When he forgets [his lines] entirely he ‘flukes,’ ‘funks,’ ‘flats’ or ‘sticks.’. | ||
DN II:i 35: fluke, v. To fail utterly. | ‘College Words and Phrases’ in||
Bottom Dogs 231: Maybe Jeremy Maxwell could afford to fluke that way, but damn if he could. | ||
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(con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 383: If Dinch was with us, it’s one hyste we never woulda fluke up. |
In phrases
(US) to die.
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 161: Fear is what rules them [...] Of an overdose. You fluke out. You die. | ||
(con. 1950s) | Valley of Fire 165: Rohr fluked out last night.
(US campus) to fail in a recitation or examination.
DN II:i 35: fluke [...] Also in phrase ‘to go up the fluke,’ to fail in recitation or examination. | ‘College Words and Phrases’ in