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flimflamnoun a clever often underhanded means to achieve an endgiving the new guy at work her cell phone number—"in case of an emergency"—was just a flimflam to pique his romantic interest artifice, device, dodge, fetch, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile bluff, end run, feintcheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickeryfraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindleblind, front, smoke screen sleight of hand an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of valuejust the latest Internet flimflam to get e-mail recipients to reveal bank account numbers and other personal information bunco(or bunko), con, fiddle(chiefly British), fraud, gyp, hustle, scam, shell game, sting, swindle cross, fixPonzi scheme, pyramid schemeracket, rip-offthimblerig, three-card montedevice, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wilegouging, overcharging, soakingcounterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony(also phoney), sham to rob by the use of trickery or threatseveryone likes to think that they're too smart to be flimflammed by anyone beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, gaff, gyp, 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 extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners ca. 1538 |