freshers' flu

noun

Etymology

From fresher (“a new student”) and flu (“disease”), an abbreviation of influenza.

Definitions

  1. A cold or similar illness contracted by new students at a university, caused by gathering…

    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.

The neighborhood

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