flimflam

flimflam
Synonyms and related words:
balderdash, ballot-box stuffing, balls, baloney, bamboozle, bamboozlement, beat, befool, befooling, beguile of, bilk, blague, bluffing, bosh, boutade, brainstorm, bull, bullshit, bunco, bunk, bunkum, burn, calculated deception, capriccio, caprice, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicane, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvention, claptrap, cock-and-bull story, cog, cog the dice, con, conceit, conning, cozen, cozenage, crank, crap, craze, crazy idea, crib, crotchet, deceit, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defraud, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, double-talk, drivel, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, euchre, exaggeration, eyewash, fad, fairy tale, fake, fallaciousness, fallacy, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fancy, fantastic notion, fantasy, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, finagle, fish story, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflammery, fob, fond illusion, fool, fool notion, fooling, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, freak, freakish inspiration, fudge, gammon, gerrymandering, ghost story, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, half-truth, hallucination, harebrained idea, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hoodwink, hoodwinking, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, humor, illicit business, illusion, imposition, imposture, jazz, jiggery-pokery, kidding, kink, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, maggot, megrim, mendacity, mirage, moonshine, mulct, notion, outwitting, overreach, overreaching, pack the deal, passing fancy, phantasm, pigeon, pious fiction, practice fraud upon, prevarication, putting on, quirk, racket, rook, scam, screw, self-deception, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, shave, shortchange, slight stretching, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, stack the cards, stick, sting, story, subterfuge, swindle, swindling, take a dive, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thimblerig, throw a fight, toy, trickiness, tricking, trumped-up story, untruth, vagary, victimization, victimize, vision, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, white lie, willful misconception, wishful thinking, yarn

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • flimflam — [“flImflAm] 1. n. a confidence trick or deception. □ The whole business sounds like a bit of flimflam to me. □ The crooks pulled a nasty flimflam on Betsy. 2. n. nonsense; deception. □ Beware of the flimflam they will try to pull on you …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • Flimflam — Flim flam, n. [Cf. {Flam}.] A freak; a trick; a lie. Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • flimflam — index bunko, falsification, ruse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • flimflam — [v] deceive, swindle bilk, burn*, cheat, chisel, con, defraud, diddle*, dupe*, fleece, fool, gip*, gull, gyp*, hose*, pull a fast one*, rip off*, rook*, sandbag, scam, shaft, steal, take for a ride*, trick; concepts 59,139,192 …   New thesaurus

  • flimflam — [flim′flam΄] n. [? redupl. < flam, deceptive trick] 1. nonsense; rubbish; humbug 2. a sly trick or deception vt. flimflammed, flimflamming Informal to trick, swindle, or cheat flimflammery n …   English World dictionary

  • flimflam — UK [ˈflɪmˌflæm] / US noun Word forms flimflam : singular flimflam plural flimflams informal 1) [countable] a plan to steal from or cheat someone 2) [uncountable] nonsense Derived word: flimflam UK / US verb transitive Word forms flimflam :… …   English dictionary

  • flimflam — noun informal 1 (U) stories, information etc that do not seem serious or true: all this psychic flimflam 2 (countable usually singular) a trick intended to cheat someone flimflam verb (T) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • flimflam — I. noun Etymology: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse flim mockery Date: circa 1570 1. deceptive nonsense 2. deception, fraud II. transitive verb (flimflammed; flimflamming) Date: 1660 to subject to a flimflam • …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • flimflam — flim|flam [ˈflımflæm] n [U] old fashioned informal [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language] information or ideas that are not true or seem very stupid ▪ I was sick of his intellectual flimflam …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • flimflam — n Informal. nonsense, twaddle, bosh. See nonsense(def.2). 2. trick, deception, humbug, fraud, swindle, Inf. the old army game, confidence game, Sl. con game, Inf. flimflam game, Sl. rip off; pretense, hoax, imposture, artifice. v 3. trick, delude …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • flimflam artist — n. someone who practices confidence tricks or deceptions on someone else. □ I don’t trust that flimflam artist at all. □ Pretty soon, you’ll learn how to spot a flimflam artist …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

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