-noun
1. a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim
1. a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim
2. a piece of nonsense; twaddle; bosh
-verb (used with object)
3. to trick, deceive, swindle, or cheat
-verb (used with object)
3. to trick, deceive, swindle, or cheat
Examples:
"The scam artist flimflammed me into paying full price for a fake diamond bracelet."
"Instead of using the traditional 'trick or treat' greeting this Halloween, amaze your friends with your intelligence by saying, 'flimflam or treat!'"
Origin: (from etymonline.com)
"1530s, a contemptuous echoic construction, perhaps connected to some unrecorded dialectal word from Scandinavian (cf. Old Norse flim 'a lampoon'). From 1650s as a verb."
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