flimflam artist/man

noun

informal
: a criminal who steals money from people by tricking them : con man
He lost all his money to a flimflam artist/man.

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Marty Supreme is a movie about a charismatic flimflam man, and so its press tour has been full of flim and also flam. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025 Now, Jackman is once again back on Broadway, starring in a bliss-inducing revival of The Music Man, Meredith Willson’s wry and tuneful fable about a traveling flimflam man who meets his Waterloo and the love of his life in small-town Iowa. — Adam Green, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022

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“Flimflam artist/man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flimflam%20artist%2Fman. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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