to funk out

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to funk out - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Funk \Funk\, v. i.
     1. To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
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     2. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk
        at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] --C. Kingsley.
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     To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.]
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              To funk right out o' political strife. --Lowell
                                                    (Biglow
                                                    Papers).
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