Associations to the word «Flu»

Wiktionary

FLU, noun. Influenza.
FLU, noun. (informal) Common cold.
FLU FRIEND, noun. (UK) A designated friend or relative who collects medicine on behalf of a person with flu who has been advised to remain at home.

Dictionary definition

FLU, noun. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats