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FLIMFLAM (flimflammed, flimflamming)

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Dictionary entry overview: What does flimflam mean?

• FLIMFLAM (noun)
The noun FLIMFLAM has 1 sense:

1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Familiarity information: FLIMFLAM used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FLIMFLAM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bunco; hustle; gyp; flimflam; confidence trick; confidence game; con game; bunko game; bunko; bunco game; con; sting

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))

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