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FLIMFLAM
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Irregular inflected forms: flimflammed , flimflamming
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Synonyms:
bunco; bunco game; bunko; bunko game; con; con game; confidence game; confidence trick; flimflam; hustle; sting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("flimflam" is a kind of...):
cheat; rig; swindle (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flimflam"):
sting operation (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals))
Derivation:
flim-flam (deceive somebody)
