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flimflam
v. cheat, swindle (Slang)
 
n. (Slang) nonsense, silliness; fraud, deception


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flimflam
Noun
1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
(synonym) bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting
(hypernym) swindle, cheat, rig
(hyponym) sting operation



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flimflam
Synonyms and related words:
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, whim-wham, whimsy, white lie, willful misconception, wishful thinking, yarn
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.

Dizionario inglese-italiano 1.0.012Download this dictionary
FLIMFLAM
CIANCE. CHIACCHIERE. SCIOCCHEZZE. IMBROGLIO. INGANNO. TRUCCO

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flimflam
slang. ความหลอกลวง, การหลอกลวง

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