Usually means: Deceptive talk or actions; swindle.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word flimflam:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. flimflam: Merriam-Webster
  2. flimflam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flimflam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flimflam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flimflam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flimflam, flimflam: Wordnik
  7. flimflam: Wiktionary
  8. flimflam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. flimflam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. flimflam: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Flimflam, flimflam: Dictionary.com
  12. Flimflam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. flimflam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. flimflam: Rhymezone
  15. Flimflam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. flimflam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. flimflam: FreeDictionary.org
  18. flimflam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. flimflam: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. flimflam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flimflam: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flimflam: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flimflam: Urban Dictionary
  2. Flimflam(m): Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See flimflammed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To swindle or cheat.
noun:  Alternative form of flim-flam [Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.]

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