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 29 Jul. 2026.

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