Spanish flu
noun/ˈspænɪʃ fluː/
/ˈspænɪʃ fluː/
[uncountable]- a name for a type of flu that caused a global pandemic (= a disease that spreads over the whole world) in 1918
- Spanish flu is estimated to have infected a third of the world's population.
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