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- giving the new guy at work her cell phone number—"in case of an emergency"—was just a flimflam to pique his romantic interest
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- just the latest Internet flimflam to get e-mail recipients to reveal bank account numbers and other personal information
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verbSynonyms of flimflam (Entry 2 of 2)
- everyone likes to think that they're too smart to be flimflammed by anyone
Synonyms for flimflam
- beat,
- bilk,
- bleed,
- cheat,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- con,
- cozen,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- do,
- do in,
- euchre,
- fiddle,
- fleece,
- gaff,
- hose
- [slang],
- hustle,
- mulct,
- nobble
- [British slang],
- pluck,
- ream,
- rip off,
- rook,
- screw,
- shake down,
- short,
- shortchange,
- skin,
- skunk,
- squeeze,
- stick,
- stiff,
- sting,
- sucker,
- swindle,
- thimblerig,
- victimize
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The first known use of flimflam was circa 1538
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