flimflam

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɪmflæm/

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flimflam (countable and uncountable, plural flimflams)

1. Alternative form of flim-flam.
   • 2025 November 22, David Frum, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 November 2025:

     Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.

flimflam (third-person singular simple present flimflams, present participle flimflamming, simple past and past participle flimflammed)

1. To swindle or cheat.