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   Flim·flam

   /ˈflimˌflam/

   

   noun

   • 1. nonsensical or insincere talk: "I suppose that you suspect me of pseudointellectual flimflam"
   • ▪ a confidence game: "flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials"

   verb

   • 1. swindle (someone) with a confidence game: "the tribe was flimflammed out of its land"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: symbolic reduplication.

   Scrabble Points: 18

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