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Flipping racket about very loud university outflow (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

effusion

'outflow' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'flipping racket about very loud university' is the wordplay.
'flipping' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'racket' becomes 'noise' ('noise' can be a synonym of 'racket'**).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'very loud' becomes 'ff' (musical abbreviation).
'university' becomes 'u'.
'noise' reversed gives 'esion'.
'ff'+'u'='ffu'
'esion' enclosing 'ffu' is 'EFFUSION'.

(Other definitions for effusion that I've seen before include "Outburst" , "Gush" , "A streaming out" , "Piece of unrestrained writing" , "Unrestrained outpouring" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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