Definition of flimflam in English:

flimflam

nounPlural flimflamsˈflɪmflamˈflɪmˌflæm

informal

1mass noun Nonsensical or insincere talk.
pseudo-intellectual flimflam
Example sentencesExamples
- They engaged in financial flimflam on an even larger scale in pushing through its record tax cut for the wealthy.
- The grand-sounding phrase about freedom being a ‘long-distance race’ is just another piece of flimflam.
- Here in Norway we have our fair share of flimflam.
- Instead, we get the flimflam of the weasel words that are scattered through this legislation about environmental sustainability and economic benefits.
- His career rose on a chic, combustible mix of obtuseness and literary flimflam.
- As the interviewer made clear in the interview, the number is itself the product of a little numerical flimflam.
- ‘We want footie, not flimflam,’ screams one headline.
- His parents are putting his little sister to bed with the usual Christmas Eve flimflam about Santa not coming to awake children.
- No flimflam, just straight down to business on the Middle East.
- Midway through this month, a Wall Street Journal headline captured the flimflam spirit that infuses so much of what passes for mass communications these days: ‘Despite Slump, Students Flock to Ad Schools.’
- All they need do is drop me an e-mail every time an under-sub-deputy-director of flimflam convenes a background briefing.
- The most longstanding, and perhaps easiest, criticism of these fantasies is that they are unreal - mere flimflam or tinsel, designed to distract, and so dupe, the purchaser of the fantasy.
- Stripping away all the flimflam, I thought I'd pick just six highlight vehicles that made their debut in Detroit - products I believe will make a major impression on the marketplace, though sometimes for different reasons.
- It won't be long before you'll see commercials and ads for ‘miracle’ fuel boosters and other such flimflam promising to help you save fuel and money.
- Therefore, thanks to this budgetary flimflam, that has been going on for some time, one part of the government can't even certify what the right numbers are.
- Book jackets are known for their hyperbole and general flimflam.
- But this word does not apply to them, even if they are guilty of the kind of flimflam that would send common hucksters to prison.
- And why are they publishing such obvious flimflam?
- Having said that, it's good to see your newspaper lighten up a bit with the occasional flimflam such as this.
- Forget all the flimflam about whether there are sufficient sexual services in Christchurch.
2A confidence trick.
flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials
Example sentencesExamples
- Let's start with the fact that none of the flimflam men behind the high-level financial swindles will have to do any time behind bars.
- Ratliff quietly casts shame upon the walking dead of Trinity by allowing for gray area and trusting that his audience is keen enough to know a flimflam when it sees one.
- Is he a flimflam artist who talked about reducing government while actually expanding it?
- Before science took over the healing arts and focused physicians' attention on biological causes of disease, mystics and alchemists and flimflam artists alike offered potions and powders to the ailing.
- If not, it's farewell to this flimflam fellow and his faux fortune.
- The only justification for this bipartisan legislative flimflam is that a prescription-drug benefit needs a certain number of holes to come in at a mandated 10-year cost of $400 billion.
- They are warned that, eventually, the Court will recommend that the District Attorney open up a new file to investigate this obvious financial flimflam.
- The trailer is also a nice, atmospheric flimflam, selling the film's terror while, surprisingly, avoiding all its tedium.
Synonyms
fraud, trick, deception, deceit, trickery, chicanery, exploitation, cheat, imposture, sham, sharp practice, artifice

verbflimflams, flimflammed, flimflammingˈflɪmflamˈflɪmˌflæm

[with object]informal

Swindle (someone) with a confidence trick.
the tribe was flimflammed out of its land
Example sentencesExamples
- And I'm far from the only one who has been flimflammed by articulate, accomplished candidates who turned out to be psychotic, fascist, or just plain useless even before the ink was dry on their personnel forms.
- The most disturbing lesson is that it is not too difficult to flimflam the public on the most consequential matter there is.
- But the only thing these people got for their effort - and their money - was flimflammed.
- The yellow metal couldn't be bribed, flattered, seduced, or flimflammed.
- This time, she accused him of flimflamming the country.
- If you haven't been flimflammed into seeing this one yet, don't bother.
Synonyms
swindle, cheat, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull

Derivatives

flimflammer

nounˈflɪmˌflaməˈflɪmˌflæmər

A person who swindles someone with a confidence trick.
a high-class flimflammer, a snake oil salesman
Example sentencesExamples
- The real crime, in one Judge's opinion, is that the flimflammers and fakers often kneecap the faith of those simply seeking something greater than themselves in which to believe.
- Since these flimflammers had already profited enormously from the earlier bailout, the industry feared that an outraged public might demand that the industry itself foot the bill for this retroactive giveaway.
- Our captains should be leading by example; but instead, they have shown themselves as a clique of charlatans, flimflammers and parasites, funding their hypocritical debauchery at society's expense.

flimflammery

nounˈflɪmˌflam(ə)riˈflɪmˌflæməri

mass noun

informal

1Nonsensical or insincere talk or ideas.
her denial had a very strong whiff of flimflammery about it
1. 1.1 The use of deception to trick or swindle someone.
Example sentencesExamples
- how long can they keep up their war-is-peace flimflammery?
- But enough of my temporally challenged flimflammery: suffice it to tell you that the only new word I learned this year was bling and its variant bling-bling.
- BusinessWeek recently ran a cover story on the financial flimflammery of the dot-coms, which has been exposed in the collapse.
- Such underworld flimflammery is exciting, and unlike the average, four-hour Oscar telecast, these alternative awards ‘are seldom boring.’
- the financial flimflammery of the dot-coms
- I'm sure it's just flimflammery designed to humiliate me

Origin

Mid 16th century: symbolic reduplication.

Definition of flimflam in US English:

flimflam

nounˈflimˌflamˈflɪmˌflæm

informal

1Nonsensical or insincere talk.
I suppose that you suspect me of pseudointellectual flimflam
Example sentencesExamples
- Here in Norway we have our fair share of flimflam.
- It won't be long before you'll see commercials and ads for ‘miracle’ fuel boosters and other such flimflam promising to help you save fuel and money.
- All they need do is drop me an e-mail every time an under-sub-deputy-director of flimflam convenes a background briefing.
- The most longstanding, and perhaps easiest, criticism of these fantasies is that they are unreal - mere flimflam or tinsel, designed to distract, and so dupe, the purchaser of the fantasy.
- Forget all the flimflam about whether there are sufficient sexual services in Christchurch.
- But this word does not apply to them, even if they are guilty of the kind of flimflam that would send common hucksters to prison.
- The grand-sounding phrase about freedom being a ‘long-distance race’ is just another piece of flimflam.
- They engaged in financial flimflam on an even larger scale in pushing through its record tax cut for the wealthy.
- Stripping away all the flimflam, I thought I'd pick just six highlight vehicles that made their debut in Detroit - products I believe will make a major impression on the marketplace, though sometimes for different reasons.
- ‘We want footie, not flimflam,’ screams one headline.
- No flimflam, just straight down to business on the Middle East.
- Book jackets are known for their hyperbole and general flimflam.
- Midway through this month, a Wall Street Journal headline captured the flimflam spirit that infuses so much of what passes for mass communications these days: ‘Despite Slump, Students Flock to Ad Schools.’
- Instead, we get the flimflam of the weasel words that are scattered through this legislation about environmental sustainability and economic benefits.
- As the interviewer made clear in the interview, the number is itself the product of a little numerical flimflam.
- His parents are putting his little sister to bed with the usual Christmas Eve flimflam about Santa not coming to awake children.
- Having said that, it's good to see your newspaper lighten up a bit with the occasional flimflam such as this.
- And why are they publishing such obvious flimflam?
- Therefore, thanks to this budgetary flimflam, that has been going on for some time, one part of the government can't even certify what the right numbers are.
- His career rose on a chic, combustible mix of obtuseness and literary flimflam.
1. 1.1 A confidence game.
  flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials
  Example sentencesExamples
  Is he a flimflam artist who talked about reducing government while actually expanding it?
  Before science took over the healing arts and focused physicians' attention on biological causes of disease, mystics and alchemists and flimflam artists alike offered potions and powders to the ailing.
  They are warned that, eventually, the Court will recommend that the District Attorney open up a new file to investigate this obvious financial flimflam.
  Let's start with the fact that none of the flimflam men behind the high-level financial swindles will have to do any time behind bars.
  The only justification for this bipartisan legislative flimflam is that a prescription-drug benefit needs a certain number of holes to come in at a mandated 10-year cost of $400 billion.
  Ratliff quietly casts shame upon the walking dead of Trinity by allowing for gray area and trusting that his audience is keen enough to know a flimflam when it sees one.
  If not, it's farewell to this flimflam fellow and his faux fortune.
  The trailer is also a nice, atmospheric flimflam, selling the film's terror while, surprisingly, avoiding all its tedium.
  Synonyms
  fraud, trick, deception, deceit, trickery, chicanery, exploitation, cheat, imposture, sham, sharp practice, artifice

verbˈflimˌflamˈflɪmˌflæm

[with object]informal

Swindle (someone) with a confidence game.
the tribe was flimflammed out of its land
Example sentencesExamples
- And I'm far from the only one who has been flimflammed by articulate, accomplished candidates who turned out to be psychotic, fascist, or just plain useless even before the ink was dry on their personnel forms.
- This time, she accused him of flimflamming the country.
- But the only thing these people got for their effort - and their money - was flimflammed.
- If you haven't been flimflammed into seeing this one yet, don't bother.
- The yellow metal couldn't be bribed, flattered, seduced, or flimflammed.
- The most disturbing lesson is that it is not too difficult to flimflam the public on the most consequential matter there is.
Synonyms
swindle, cheat, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull

Origin

Mid 16th century: symbolic reduplication.

单词	flimflam
释义	Definition of flimflam in English: flimflam nounPlural flimflamsˈflɪmflamˈflɪmˌflæm informal 1mass noun Nonsensical or insincere talk. pseudo-intellectual flimflam Example sentencesExamples They engaged in financial flimflam on an even larger scale in pushing through its record tax cut for the wealthy. The grand-sounding phrase about freedom being a ‘long-distance race’ is just another piece of flimflam. Here in Norway we have our fair share of flimflam. Instead, we get the flimflam of the weasel words that are scattered through this legislation about environmental sustainability and economic benefits. His career rose on a chic, combustible mix of obtuseness and literary flimflam. As the interviewer made clear in the interview, the number is itself the product of a little numerical flimflam. ‘We want footie, not flimflam,’ screams one headline. His parents are putting his little sister to bed with the usual Christmas Eve flimflam about Santa not coming to awake children. No flimflam, just straight down to business on the Middle East. Midway through this month, a Wall Street Journal headline captured the flimflam spirit that infuses so much of what passes for mass communications these days: ‘Despite Slump, Students Flock to Ad Schools.’ All they need do is drop me an e-mail every time an under-sub-deputy-director of flimflam convenes a background briefing. The most longstanding, and perhaps easiest, criticism of these fantasies is that they are unreal - mere flimflam or tinsel, designed to distract, and so dupe, the purchaser of the fantasy. Stripping away all the flimflam, I thought I'd pick just six highlight vehicles that made their debut in Detroit - products I believe will make a major impression on the marketplace, though sometimes for different reasons. It won't be long before you'll see commercials and ads for ‘miracle’ fuel boosters and other such flimflam promising to help you save fuel and money. Therefore, thanks to this budgetary flimflam, that has been going on for some time, one part of the government can't even certify what the right numbers are. Book jackets are known for their hyperbole and general flimflam. But this word does not apply to them, even if they are guilty of the kind of flimflam that would send common hucksters to prison. And why are they publishing such obvious flimflam? Having said that, it's good to see your newspaper lighten up a bit with the occasional flimflam such as this. Forget all the flimflam about whether there are sufficient sexual services in Christchurch. 2A confidence trick. flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials Example sentencesExamples Let's start with the fact that none of the flimflam men behind the high-level financial swindles will have to do any time behind bars. Ratliff quietly casts shame upon the walking dead of Trinity by allowing for gray area and trusting that his audience is keen enough to know a flimflam when it sees one. Is he a flimflam artist who talked about reducing government while actually expanding it? Before science took over the healing arts and focused physicians' attention on biological causes of disease, mystics and alchemists and flimflam artists alike offered potions and powders to the ailing. If not, it's farewell to this flimflam fellow and his faux fortune. The only justification for this bipartisan legislative flimflam is that a prescription-drug benefit needs a certain number of holes to come in at a mandated 10-year cost of $400 billion. They are warned that, eventually, the Court will recommend that the District Attorney open up a new file to investigate this obvious financial flimflam. The trailer is also a nice, atmospheric flimflam, selling the film's terror while, surprisingly, avoiding all its tedium. Synonyms fraud, trick, deception, deceit, trickery, chicanery, exploitation, cheat, imposture, sham, sharp practice, artifice verbflimflams, flimflammed, flimflammingˈflɪmflamˈflɪmˌflæm [with object]informal Swindle (someone) with a confidence trick. the tribe was flimflammed out of its land Example sentencesExamples And I'm far from the only one who has been flimflammed by articulate, accomplished candidates who turned out to be psychotic, fascist, or just plain useless even before the ink was dry on their personnel forms. The most disturbing lesson is that it is not too difficult to flimflam the public on the most consequential matter there is. But the only thing these people got for their effort - and their money - was flimflammed. The yellow metal couldn't be bribed, flattered, seduced, or flimflammed. This time, she accused him of flimflamming the country. If you haven't been flimflammed into seeing this one yet, don't bother. Synonyms swindle, cheat, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull Derivatives flimflammer nounˈflɪmˌflaməˈflɪmˌflæmər A person who swindles someone with a confidence trick. a high-class flimflammer, a snake oil salesman Example sentencesExamples The real crime, in one Judge's opinion, is that the flimflammers and fakers often kneecap the faith of those simply seeking something greater than themselves in which to believe. Since these flimflammers had already profited enormously from the earlier bailout, the industry feared that an outraged public might demand that the industry itself foot the bill for this retroactive giveaway. Our captains should be leading by example; but instead, they have shown themselves as a clique of charlatans, flimflammers and parasites, funding their hypocritical debauchery at society's expense. flimflammery nounˈflɪmˌflam(ə)riˈflɪmˌflæməri mass nouninformal 1Nonsensical or insincere talk or ideas. her denial had a very strong whiff of flimflammery about it 1.1 The use of deception to trick or swindle someone. Example sentencesExamples how long can they keep up their war-is-peace flimflammery? But enough of my temporally challenged flimflammery: suffice it to tell you that the only new word I learned this year was bling and its variant bling-bling. BusinessWeek recently ran a cover story on the financial flimflammery of the dot-coms, which has been exposed in the collapse. Such underworld flimflammery is exciting, and unlike the average, four-hour Oscar telecast, these alternative awards ‘are seldom boring.’ the financial flimflammery of the dot-coms I'm sure it's just flimflammery designed to humiliate me Origin Mid 16th century: symbolic reduplication. Definition of flimflam in US English: flimflam nounˈflimˌflamˈflɪmˌflæm informal 1Nonsensical or insincere talk. I suppose that you suspect me of pseudointellectual flimflam Example sentencesExamples Here in Norway we have our fair share of flimflam. It won't be long before you'll see commercials and ads for ‘miracle’ fuel boosters and other such flimflam promising to help you save fuel and money. All they need do is drop me an e-mail every time an under-sub-deputy-director of flimflam convenes a background briefing. The most longstanding, and perhaps easiest, criticism of these fantasies is that they are unreal - mere flimflam or tinsel, designed to distract, and so dupe, the purchaser of the fantasy. Forget all the flimflam about whether there are sufficient sexual services in Christchurch. But this word does not apply to them, even if they are guilty of the kind of flimflam that would send common hucksters to prison. The grand-sounding phrase about freedom being a ‘long-distance race’ is just another piece of flimflam. They engaged in financial flimflam on an even larger scale in pushing through its record tax cut for the wealthy. Stripping away all the flimflam, I thought I'd pick just six highlight vehicles that made their debut in Detroit - products I believe will make a major impression on the marketplace, though sometimes for different reasons. ‘We want footie, not flimflam,’ screams one headline. No flimflam, just straight down to business on the Middle East. Book jackets are known for their hyperbole and general flimflam. Midway through this month, a Wall Street Journal headline captured the flimflam spirit that infuses so much of what passes for mass communications these days: ‘Despite Slump, Students Flock to Ad Schools.’ Instead, we get the flimflam of the weasel words that are scattered through this legislation about environmental sustainability and economic benefits. As the interviewer made clear in the interview, the number is itself the product of a little numerical flimflam. His parents are putting his little sister to bed with the usual Christmas Eve flimflam about Santa not coming to awake children. Having said that, it's good to see your newspaper lighten up a bit with the occasional flimflam such as this. And why are they publishing such obvious flimflam? Therefore, thanks to this budgetary flimflam, that has been going on for some time, one part of the government can't even certify what the right numbers are. His career rose on a chic, combustible mix of obtuseness and literary flimflam. 1.1 A confidence game. flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials Example sentencesExamples Is he a flimflam artist who talked about reducing government while actually expanding it? Before science took over the healing arts and focused physicians' attention on biological causes of disease, mystics and alchemists and flimflam artists alike offered potions and powders to the ailing. They are warned that, eventually, the Court will recommend that the District Attorney open up a new file to investigate this obvious financial flimflam. Let's start with the fact that none of the flimflam men behind the high-level financial swindles will have to do any time behind bars. The only justification for this bipartisan legislative flimflam is that a prescription-drug benefit needs a certain number of holes to come in at a mandated 10-year cost of $400 billion. Ratliff quietly casts shame upon the walking dead of Trinity by allowing for gray area and trusting that his audience is keen enough to know a flimflam when it sees one. If not, it's farewell to this flimflam fellow and his faux fortune. The trailer is also a nice, atmospheric flimflam, selling the film's terror while, surprisingly, avoiding all its tedium. Synonyms fraud, trick, deception, deceit, trickery, chicanery, exploitation, cheat, imposture, sham, sharp practice, artifice verbˈflimˌflamˈflɪmˌflæm [with object]informal Swindle (someone) with a confidence game. the tribe was flimflammed out of its land Example sentencesExamples And I'm far from the only one who has been flimflammed by articulate, accomplished candidates who turned out to be psychotic, fascist, or just plain useless even before the ink was dry on their personnel forms. This time, she accused him of flimflamming the country. But the only thing these people got for their effort - and their money - was flimflammed. If you haven't been flimflammed into seeing this one yet, don't bother. The yellow metal couldn't be bribed, flattered, seduced, or flimflammed. The most disturbing lesson is that it is not too difficult to flimflam the public on the most consequential matter there is. Synonyms swindle, cheat, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull Origin Mid 16th century: symbolic reduplication.
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