flimflam

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/ˈflɪmflæm/

verb

To swindle or cheat.

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Meanings

nounflimflam (countable and uncountable, plural flimflams)

plural flimflams

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of flim-flam.

    Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.

    2025 November 22, David Frum, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2025
verbflimflam (third-person singular simple present flimflams, present participle flimflamming, simple past and past participle flimflammed)

present singular third person flimflams · participle present flimflamming · participle past flimflammed · past flimflammed

  1. To swindle or cheat.

Synonyms & antonyms

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

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Broader
swindlecheatrig
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Dutch bedrog, zwendel
  • bedrogTranslations
  • zwendelTranslations
  • afzetterijTranslations
  • bedriegenTranslations
Polish szwindel, przekręt
  • szwindelTranslations
  • przekrętTranslations
  • bachnąćTranslations
  • kantowaćTranslations
  • okantowaćTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

flimflam. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flimflam

MLA

“flimflam.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flimflam. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flimflam,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flimflam.

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