freshers' flu
Meanings
noun
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
From fresher (“a new student”) and flu (“disease”), an abbreviation of influenza.
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