freshers' flu
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From fresher (“a new student”) and flu (“disease”), an abbreviation of influenza.
Noun[edit]
- (UK, informal) 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.
See also[edit]
- con crud (contracted at conventions)