FLIMFLAM (flimflammed, flimflamming)

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Irregular inflected forms: flimflammed    , flimflamming   

 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

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; bunco game; bunko; bunko game; con; con game; confidence game; confidence trick; flimflam; hustle; 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))

Derivation:

flim-flam (deceive somebody)