Usually means: Confuse someone greatly; bewilder thoroughly.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word flummox:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. flummox: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flummox: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flummox: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flummox: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flummox: Vocabulary.com
  6. flummox: Wordnik
  7. flummox: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flummox: Wiktionary
  9. flummox: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flummox: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flummox: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flummox: Dictionary.com
  13. flummox: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flummox: Rhymezone
  15. flummox: Free Dictionary
  16. flummox: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Flummox: The Word Detective
  18. flummox: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. Flummox: World Wide Words

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flummox: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flummox: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. flummox, flummox: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flummox: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Flummox: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See flummoxed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flummox)

verb:  (intransitive) To confuse; to fluster; to flabbergast.
verb:  (intransitive, uncommon) To give in, to give up, to collapse.

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