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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal, uncountable
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History
From fresher (“a new student”) and flu (“disease”), an abbreviation of influenza.
