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flimflamsnounpl. of flimflam 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 artifices, devices, dodges, fetches, gambits, gimmicks, jigs, juggles, knacks, plays, ploys, ruses, schemes, shenanigans, sleights, stratagems, tricks, wiles bluffs, end runs, feintschicaneries, cozenages, crafts, crookeries, cunnings, deceptions, duperies, duplicities, fakeries, juggleries, legerdemains, skulduggeries(or skullduggeries), subterfuges, trickeriesfrauds, gaffs, hoaxes, shams, swindlesblinds, fronts, smoke screens sleights 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 buncos(or bunkos), cons, fiddles(chiefly British), frauds, gyps, hustles, scams, shell games, stings, swindles crosses, fixesPonzi schemes, pyramid schemesrackets, rip-offsthimblerigs, three-card montesdevices, dodges, gimmicks, jigs, ploys, schemes, sleights, stratagems, tricks, wilescounterfeits, fakes, forgeries, hoaxes, humbug, phonies(also phoneys), shams to rob by the use of trickery or threatseveryone likes to think that they're too smart to be flimflammed by anyone beats, bilks, bleeds, cheats, chisels, chouses, cons, cozens, defrauds, diddles, does, does in, euchres, fiddles, fleeces, gaffs, gyps, hoses(slang), hustles, mulcts, nobbles(British slang), plucks, reams, rips off, rooks, screws, shakes down, shortchanges, shorts, skins, skunks, squeezes, sticks, stiffs, stings, suckers, swindles, thimblerigs, victimizes extorts, wrenches, wrests, wringsclips, gouges, nicks, overcharges, soaksexploits, milksdeceives, dupes, fools, gulls, tricksropes (in)betrays, bitches, double-crossesbamboozles, fast-talks sells a bill of goods to, takes for a ride, takes to the cleaners |