freshers' flu
A cold or similar illness contracted by new students at a university, caused by…A cold or similar illness contracted by new students at a university, caused by gathering people (and the diseases they carry) from a wide variety of places in a confined area, allowing the diseases to spread to those without immunity.
Meaning
1 senses(UK, informal, uncountable)A cold or similar illness contracted by new students at a university, caused by gathering people (and the diseases they carry) from a wide variety of places in a confined area, allowing the diseases to spread to those without immunity.
Origin
From fresher (“a new student”) and flu (“disease”), an abbreviation of influenza.From fresher (“a new student”) and flu (“disease”), an abbreviation of influenza.
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedcon crud
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable