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US
/ˈfɫɪmˌfɫæm/
]
[ UK /flˈɪmflæm/ ]
[ UK /flˈɪmflæm/ ]
NOUN
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
How To Use flimflam In A Sentence
- But the only thing these people got for their effort - and their money - was flimflammed.
- Will the grass-roots nation call these gentlemen to account for their freedom flimflamming of the past? The Tea Parties Are No 'Great Awakening'
- As the movie's plot gets more embroiled, it becomes less coherent and amusing, climaxing as it does with a massive train derailment, a hostage situation, and a final bit of flimflammery that's truly just nonsensical.
- I have created a special folder in which I toss notes on short problems with answers that are based on some sort of joke, swindle, misdirection, or other kind of flimflammery.
- Frank Rich offers insight to the Bob Woodward affair with the Valerie Plame CIA leak, opening a window into the White House flimflams and the press's role in enabling them. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Frank Rich: All the President's Flacks
- ‘The Music Man’ is a masterful musical from 1957 about a traveling con-man who, for the first time in a long career of band-themed flimflammery, finally gets his foot caught in an Iowa door.
- Also the local gas station is a haven for flimflam gas scams. Calakmul
- The yellow metal couldn't be bribed, flattered, seduced, or flimflammed.
- They are warned that, eventually, the Court will recommend that the District Attorney open up a new file to investigate this obvious financial flimflam.
- They engaged in financial flimflam on an even larger scale in pushing through its record tax cut for the wealthy.