Meaning of FLIMFLAM
| Pronunciation: | | 'flim`flam
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| | Definition: | | [n] a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
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| | Synonyms: | | bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, gyp, hustle, sting |
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| | See Also: | | cheat, rig, swindle | |
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| | Definition: | | Flim-Flam
A brilliant expose of ESP, levitation, UFOlogy, dowsing, psychic detectives, psychic surgery, psychokinesis, and other so-called paranormal phenomena. Randi shows how sloppy research has been followed by rationalizations of evident failures, and clearly points out these errors and misrepresentations. It`s the best of Randi on a wide range of paranormal topics ! Delightfully direct...will enlighten any reader who does not clearly understand that not one shard of evidence for these phenomena exists...a healthy and often hilarious book . -- The New York Times more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flim"flam\, n. [Cf. {Flam}.]
A freak; a trick; a lie. --Beau. & Fl.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, whimsy, whim-wham, white lie, willful misconception, wishful thinking, yarn |
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